As successor to the Empress Dowager Shoken, the Empress Teimei promoted silk yarn threads and the silk industry; she herself, engaged in the production of sericulture (Kogo's Goshinsan [Empress's sericulture]).
昭憲皇太后の後継者として、蚕糸・絹業を奨励し、自身も養蚕（皇后御親蚕）に取り組んだ。