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Yokohama Silk Museum
The Yokohama Silk Museum is a museum located in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan that covers the silk trade in Japan. The museum displays silk kimono and covers the importance of Yokohama as a silk port. The objective of the museum is, according to their website: To disseminate an understanding of the science and technology of silk production, display beautiful costumes for people to admire and promote the demand for silk. References External links Silk Museum Museums in Yokohama Naka-ku, Yokohama Textile museums in Japan Silk {{Japan-museum-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama SilkCenter
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the KantÅ region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspaper (1870), gas- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
