Displayed here are words woven from Gunma’s sericulture culture, which once supported Japan’s silk industry. These words evoke vast fields of mulberry stretching across the land, the rain-like rustle of silkworms eating mulberry leaves, and the hum of the reeling machine late at night. They tell of people affectionately calling silkworms “Okaiko-sama” (honorable silkworms) and raising them with utmost care. They also hint at the stories of teenage girls who underpinned Japan’s modernization, and perhaps even the echoes of war that eventually reached this very land. This artwork was born from the desire to reconstruct these words, etched into this land, and create a space where we can imagine the daily lives of people from a bygone era.