Gifu Chirimen which is now produced near Kagashima village to the west of Gifv city, began with the middle age of Edo era. From the historical point of view, its development can be divided into three stages as follows: (1) Beginnig (2) Changes of locations (3) Decline.
Giving an outline of the Chirimen industry in each of the stages, I studied on some evident terms of locations in this treatise. As a result of my study, the following points were made clear:
(a) It has had an important effect upon the existence of the indnstry in all ages that they can't support themselves by agriculture alone because most of this land locate on a swampy land.
(b) The Chirimen industry was under the powerful protection of Owari-Han (a feudel clan) in the beginning.
(c) The changes of its location are as follows: It has been deprived of the protection of Owari-han since meiji era, conseguently the former industry has once fallen into decay and has newly arisen from Kagashima, a poor farm-village.
(d) The reason why the present indusltry is on the decline is as follows: It cant's become a large enterprise owing to its subordination to the wholesale capital and has remarkably suffered from the war and has been oppressed by the other new fiber industry.
