Empress's "Owaku" 19:33 on May 29th
On the 29th, the Empress attended an event called "Owaku", which gave mulberry leaves to be fed to the silkworms raised in the Imperial Palace.
In the imperial family, successive empresses have been raising silkworms since the Meiji era, and the empress has inherited the tradition from the empress and has been engaged in sericulture for the first time since this month.
On the 29th, in the evening, at a breeding facility in Koyoyama of the Imperial Palace, mulberry leaves were given to domestically produced "Koishimaru" varieties of silkworm.
The empress asked a staff member, "How long would it take to eat?", By carefully covering the silkworms grown to a body length of about 10 cm with mulberry leaves as food.
It was said that the silkworm listened to the sound of eating leaves and said, "You can hear the usual sounds."
According to the Imperial Household Agency, silkworms are growing well and will start making cocoons within a few days, so the raw silk collected is used every year as a gift for foreign guests.