Caravans of camels carrying silk traveled westward across the endless desert. The exchange land route that stretches from China through Central Asia to Europe was called the "SILK ROAD." Sericulture, the process of raising silkworms and extracting silk thread, is understood to have appeared in China in the third millennium BC [1]. In the following millennia, silk was a significant cause of the magnificent and brilliant Chinese culture in the millennia following, and it facilitated contact between Eastern and Western civilizations via the "SILK ROAD." Currently, the world production of silk is about 110,000 tons per year [2]. This highlight is expected to provide fundamental analytical insights into silk fibroin's chemical structure and inspire various researchers to analyze historical or novel silk materials considering silk's characteristic chemical and physical properties. Spider silk threads [3,4] and bagworm silk threads [5] will be introduced at another opportunity.Most silk-producing silkworms (wild silkworms, [e.g., Samia cynthia ricini (eri silkworm), Antheraea mylitta (tasar silkworm), Antheraea pernyi (temperate tasar silkworm), Antheraea mylitta Drury (tropical tasar silkworm), Antheraea assama (muga silkworm), Caligzlla japonica (Japanese chestnut silkworm), Antheraea yamamai (Japanese oak silkworm)]) can feed on a wide variety of leaves, but Bombyx mori (mulberry silkworm; domestic silkworm) grow by eating only mulberry leaves. The ingested leaf pieces are digested and absorbed as amino acids in the digestive tract. The liquid silk is then synthesized from various amino acids in the silk gland. The resulting liquid silk is spun as an insoluble single cocoon filament through the spinneret on the head of the caterpillar. Mulberry silkworms produce