Yosa

Yosa lies in Tango, among the valleys leading to the Sea of Japan. Its communities became part of a silk-weaving region renowned for chirimen, a crepe with a distinctive textured surface. In the early eighteenth century, Momenya Rokuemon of Kaya sent craftsmen to Nishijin in Kyoto to learn the technique. Temeya Koemon and Yamamotoya Sahei brought it home in 1722, helping establish a craft that spread through Tango's weaving villages.