brocade-weavers

Updated: May 1, 2025

This request was complied with, and the newcomers were assigned dwellings at the village of Tsuno in Yamato;* but as the place proved unhealthy, they were afterwards distributed among several localities. *There were potters, saddlers, brocade-weavers, and interpreters. It is also recorded that, about this time, there came from China a man called An Kiko, a descendant of one of the Wu sovereigns.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era