Textile Industries and Its Financial Basis in Prewar Kansai Region

这一研究项目的主要任务之一是编纂由日本纺纱者协会和前三和银行提出的历史文献目录。这些目录是在本项目期限的最后一年编制的完整表格。与此同时，首席调查员和调查人员继续研究支持大阪、东京和广岛县福山小企业发展的历史条件。在这些研究中，讨论了大城市中专院校的活动、中专毕业生的载体路径以及地市级研究中心主导的应对市场新趋势的研究与开发等主题。如何将支持小企业发展的制度条件与金融历史研究成果联系起来，是下一阶段的研究课题之一。对三家银行大规模借款人的分析还处于初步研究阶段，即借款人名单的制定和利率等条件。我们认为，通过这些作品，是了解近代日本小企业发展的重要支柱批发商主导的金融真实状况的第一步。

One of the main tasks of this research project was to compile the catalogues of historical documentation which were presented by the Japan Spinners Association and the former Sanwa Bank. These catalogues were compiled as the complete forms in the last year of the term of this project.Paralleled with this work, head investigator and investigator proceeded with the research on the historical conditions which supported the development of small business in Osaka, Tokyo and Fukuyama in Hiroshima Prefecture. In these researches, the topics such as the activities if technical schools in large cities, the carrier path of the graduates of technical schools, and research and development led by prefectural research centers in response to the new trend in the marketplace were discussed. One of the research topics in the next stage is to bridge the institutional conditions which support the development of small business and the achievement in historical studies on finance.The analysis on large scale borrowers of three banks is still at the stage of initial research, namely the making of the lists of borrowers and interest rates and other conditions. Proceeding with these works is, we believe, the first step of making clear the real situation of finance led by wholesale merchants which were an important pillar that supported the development of small business in modern Japan.