Satsuma domain is well known for its severe monopoly system in sugar production. Farmers who were living in this domain was enforced to cultivate commercial production, and domain government captured the profits of production. It is interesting to find a fact that in this circumstance silk culture was introduced in Satsuma clan. In this article, I researched the process and development of silk culture in Satsuma domain and analyzed the reasons of failure or success in this period. There is no detail research on this theme till now. In the 1770s, Satsuma domain government began to encourage silk culture by introducing the techniques and supplying mulberry. They also hoped to increase the revenues by collecting the profits of production of silk. But they failed, because the farmers in this domain did not want to produce silk because the profits of silk culture entered not to the cultivator but to domain government. In silk culture It is necessary the desire of cultivator, which is connected with the hope that they can get the profits by production. In spite of this failure, Satsuma government vigorously encouraged the production of silk in the 1850s by supplying capital to silk districts. After the feudalistic institution was abolished in the 1870s, farmer's cultivation and selling silk became free, the profits of silk production entered to cultivator, and silk culture in Kagoshima prefecture spreaded rapidly through the region. This success was depended upon the continual development through trial and error in Satsuma domain periods. In the end, the key point in the development of silk culture was that the profits of production go to farmer or not.

Satsuma domain is well known for its severe monopoly system in sugar production. Farmers who were living in this domain was enforced to cultivate commercial production, and domain government captured the profits of production. It is interesting to find a fact that in this circumstance silk culture was introduced in Satsuma clan. In this article, I researched the process and development of silk culture in Satsuma domain and analyzed the reasons of failure or success in this period. There is no detail research on this theme till now. In the 1770s, Satsuma domain government began to encourage silk culture by introducing the techniques and supplying mulberry. They also hoped to increase the revenues by collecting the profits of production of silk. But they failed, because the farmers in this domain did not want to produce silk because the profits of silk culture entered not to the cultivator but to domain government. In silk culture It is necessary the desire of cultivator, which is connected with the hope that they can get the profits by production. In spite of this failure, Satsuma government vigorously encouraged the production of silk in the 1850s by supplying capital to silk districts. After the feudalistic institution was abolished in the 1870s, farmer's cultivation and selling silk became free, the profits of silk production entered to cultivator, and silk culture in Kagoshima prefecture spreaded rapidly through the region. This success was depended upon the continual development through trial and error in Satsuma domain periods. In the end, the key point in the development of silk culture was that the profits of production go to farmer or not.