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U. S. National Museum, Washington, Januari/ 27, 1882. 



CATAliOOUE OF A COr.t,KCTIO.X OF JTAPA.'VESE COTTOX FIBER 

 PRESEr«fTE» TO THE UIVITEW STATE.S .XATJONAl. ITBUSEUITI BY 

 THE OOVERIVMENT ©F JAPAIV, TOCJETHER ^VITH THE A.^lOUi^T 

 OF THE AXIVUAl., €ROP OF JAPAN A:V0 THE PRICE OF COTTON.* 



[Prepared by the Japanese Legation.] 



IsTo. 1. Cotton produced by — 

 Konishi Shojiro, 



Awadouo mura, Soyekami-gori, 

 Yauiato, Osaka-Fu. 

 Aimiial ciop, about 225 kiu = 298.14075 pouuds. 

 Market price, 7.1 seu per 1 kiu = 1.32507 i)ounds. 



*NoTE to the catalogue of the collection of cotton. — Of the sufSxes to 

 the words signifying the localities of i)roducers, ' ' niura '' means village and " gori "town- 

 ship, and in the catalogue is mentioned next to the township the name of a geograph- 

 ical division or province, and then follows a political division. 



Note to the account of cotton husbandry. — The district of Kinai, strictly 

 speaking, comprises the provinces of Yamashiro, Yamato, Kawachi, Idsnuii, and 

 Settsu, but in the sense used in the account that district may also comprise some 

 other neighboring x^roviuces. The district of Kanto comprises the province of ^lu- 

 sashi and other seven adjacent provinces. The district of Chiugoku consists of all the 

 provinces lying south of those of Ilarima aiut Tamba and north of Nagato and Suwo. 

 The district of Kiushiu is the whole of the island of that name. The district of 

 T6-oku comiirises the northeastern part of the province of 0-shin, which is now di- 

 vided into five provinces. And the district of Hokuroku includes seven j)rovince8 — 

 Wakasa, Tecliizen, Kaga, Noto, Tetchin, Tcchigo, and Sado. 



Proc. Nat. Mus. 81 29 Msay 13, 188S. 



