Why is there only more cloth and less gold and silver in Japan?

1, although Japan has rich gold and silver reserves, they were only discovered in modern times and most of them were controlled by western powers.

2. There are gold and silver ornaments in peacetime, but only for nobles. After all, productivity was not high then. Before the Tokugawa shogunate, craftsmen had no energy to make them. After the Tokugawa shogunate, the shogunate was too strict to make them. Although the Tokugawa shogunate mined many veins in the later period, most of the metals obtained were used to make reparations for unequal treaties.

Don't think that ancient Japanese geisha were poor. Geisha in ancient times belonged to senior white-collar workers, which was not a place that ordinary people could afford. At that time, only officials or nobles could afford it.