Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo 4th month, 1872 Utagawa Yoshitora Japanese Casper Müller, a Swiss expert based in Yokohama, was employed by the prestigious and financially successful Ono Silk Filature Company to build a modern silk reeling factory in Tokyo. Yoshitora’s complex triptych serves as a precious record of its young female workers first empty baskets of cocoons into vats of steaming water, and then locate the thread ends from several cocoons in order to reel them onto a spinning Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo 55511

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