The is a canal in

Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It rises from Nijō-

Kiyamachi 260px, Kiyamachi Street and Takase River is a historical street in Kyoto, Japan, running north–south. It runs between Kiyamachi Nijō and Kiyamachi Shichijō on the eastern side of the Takase River near the Kamo River. There also runs Ni ...

, going along Kiyamachi Street, and meets the Uji River at Fushimi port. The canal crosses with the

Kamo River The is located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. The riverbanks are popular walking spots for residents and tourists. In summer, restaurants open balconies looking out to the river. There are walkways running alongside the river, and some stepping ...

on the way. Today the south half is not connected with Kamo River.

History

It was dug by

Suminokura Ryōi was a merchant and shipper of Edo period Kyoto.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Chaya Shirōjirō''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see'Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File. Along with the fa ...

in 1611, during the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

, to transport various goods and resources in the center of

. It made a great contribution to the development of the city and economic growth at that time.

External links

(Takasegawa Ichino-Funairi, 高瀬川一之船入, Japanese national memorial, 1st port near Nijō-Kiyamachi)
(Takase River flows into Kamo River)
(Shin-Takase River flows into Uji River) Rivers of Kyoto Prefecture Geography of Kyoto Canals in Japan Canals opened in 1611 Rivers of Japan {{Japan-river-stub