Thanks to the rapid growth of the economy in the Genroku era, the monetary economy spread to agricultural communities too, and the commercial crops such as mulberry, lacquer, hinoki cypress, paper mulberry, safflower, indigo, hemp and cotton began to be cultivated more and more.
元禄時代の経済の急成長により、貨幣経済が農村にも浸透し、四木（桑・漆・檜・楮）・三草（紅花・藍・麻または木綿）など商品作物の栽培が進んだ。