Silk reeling industry was booming, whereas the price of raw silk as material was falling everyday. This was rather ridiculous to him.

This success fills up a gap in by-product drying in silk reeling industry and lays down a sound foundation for a continuous and automatic drying process.

From the 1880s to the 1930s, the textile industry in Japan employed over half of all workers, most of them in the three major branches of silk reeling, cotton spinning, and weaving.