Ever since Nozawa had time-traveled into this predicament, it was the first time he saw handicraft production, and even quite large-scale handicraft production. Watching the chaotic and busy craftsmen, he finally realized where the various goods in Kuno Town came from.
He hadn't thought about it at all before. As he saw it, Japan's Middle Ages commerce was quite prosperous, with woodware, lacquerware, wax, oil, paper, ink, inkstones, wine, sauce, ironware, copper ware, tin ware... A dazzling array; whatever was needed daily, as long as one had money, you could basically get anything.
But as a modern person, the variety and abundance of commodities are a normal phenomenon, and nothing worth wondering about. He directly ignored it, didn't even think about it, until now he realized — it was impossible for so many goods to rely entirely on imports; there must be local manufacturers. Who was producing them?
Now the answer was clear; it was the Japanese monks producing them.
