2022-09-30 Musset's museum introduction "The Imperial Family and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology"

#ハッケンコウケンサポーターNo_9

The first photo is of a chair on display at the University of Tokyo's Science Museum.
This is the seat where members of the Imperial family have sat when they visited our university.
The second photo shows words of encouragement (imperial decree) from a member of the Imperial Family to the graduates.

The predecessor of the Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology was the Tokyo Higher Sericulture School, a vocational school that trained instructors in the sericulture industry.
After that, even after it became the University of Agriculture and Technology, the Faculty of Textiles was established for a while, and was renamed the Faculty of Engineering in 1962. Due to the sericulture and silk-reeling, members of the imperial family were often visitors!
The history of sericulture in the Imperial Court is long, and there are even descriptions of it in the Nihon Shoki.
In 1871, the Empress Dowager at the time officially started sericulture at the Imperial Palace. Since then, it has been passed down to successive Empresses to this day!

In order to raise silkworms at the Imperial Palace, the then Empress visited the Tokyo Sericulture Training Institute (the forerunner of the Tokyo Higher Sericulture School) for the first time in 1905 to inspect sericulture and silk reeling.
Regarding the breeding, an inquiry was made (asking someone of lower status than oneself) to Director Honda (the first principal of Tokyo Higher Sericulture School), and Director Honda gave a tour of the facilities and gave him advice!
Because of this, several students began going to the Imperial Palace to spin some of the cocoons produced at the Imperial Palace (the process of extracting thread from boiled cocoons to turn them into raw silk).
In addition, most of the cocoons were spun at the silk reeling factory within the Tokyo Higher School of Sericulture, and then processed into raw silk and cotton wool, which were then delivered to the Imperial Court.

After that, as the sericulture industry became an important industry for the country, members of the Imperial family frequently visited to encourage it, and this relationship continued right up until the mid-Showa period!
I'm shocked to learn that there is such a connection between Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and the Imperial Family!

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