However, as indigo plants disappeared from production areas across the country due to the pervasion of imported goods and chemical dyes, indigo plants also disappeared from Fukuchiyama during the Taisho period, and was the last area producing indigo plants.
しかしやがて、輸入品や化学染料に押され全国の藍の産地が消え行く中、京都の最後の藍の産地となっていた福知山も大正の時代とともに姿を消した。