Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1885 — The Industries of Japan. [ARTICLE]

The Industries of Japan.

Japanese industries are mostly conducted in small workshops, with possibly the aid of a primitive waterwheel, fan-making and the manufacture of porcelain, paper, pigments, and lacquers constituting a large portion of the whole. Nearly all kinds of ores are abundant in Japan, but mining and metallurgy, although practiced to some extent for centuries, do not take the prominence that would be expected, when we remember that some of the most exquisite specimens of hammered iron and bronze work to be found in imported collections to-day are the productions of Japanese artists of a thousand years ago.