Reading Adosurin in Imperial Japan.

This article analyzes mosurin, a plain - weave wool fabric made in Imperial Japan 0868-1945), from both a historical and a literary standpoint. It offers an analysis of military-related patterns on mosurin fabric, representations of mosurin in print media including Japanese prewar textbooks, and descriptions of both the consumer culture surrounding this fabric and the female factory labor involved in its production in modern Japanese literature. The article argues that mosurin in Imperial Japan was linked with popular consumerism, labor activism, and imperial and wartime propaganda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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