両毛地方の機業圏の変容

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The textile industrial regions in the Kwanto district include fourteen organized groups. Five of them in the north part, so-called Ryomo-chiho, have the largest scale in the district. Theextile areas except Isezaki were independent from the surrounding textile areas in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
Each areal group consisted of weavers, dealers, and attached industries to weavers, and it had each chacterized product as follows:
Kiryu: silk cloth of Kyoto mode.
Ashikaga: mixed weaving cloth of cotton silk.
Tatebayasni: cotton cloth of splashed pattern.
Sano: crêpe cotton cloth.
I sezaki: silk cloth of splashed pattern.
However, these areal groups have changed their characters because of the change of the socio-economic background of Japan since 1955.
Kiryu and Isezaki is continuously the most prosperou groups, especially one fourth of industrial products of Kiryu depnds onthe textile fabrics. On the other hand, Tatebayashi has declined in general. Sano has changed from the traditional cotton cotton cloth different mode textile fabrics.
Ashikaga has lost the traditional products and dissoluted the areal character, but has developed several modern fabics and is reorganizing the new manufacturing area with the vicinity.
As mentioned above, the textile industrial region of Ryomo-chiho shows partially areal concentration and dicentralization sice 1955.