Boat Landing Place at the Asahi River, Katsuyama
勝山の船着場 Katsuyama no Funatsukiba
The river was rather shallow (takase) and it was a dangerous job do ferry the goods from Katsuyama downriver.
The river boats (takasebune 高瀬舟) were manouvered with three people, two with poles in the front and one for the sail in the back. It took them two days to go downriver to Okayama town and then four days to bring the boat back home.
Text of the stone
The cobbled stones are from the Edo period. During a strong rain period, the river would come up very high.
Warehouse by the river
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風に乗る川霧軽し高瀬舟
kaze ni noru kawagiri karushi takasebune
riding the wind
in light river mist -
the high-sided boat
Sooin (1604-82)
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Takasebune (1916, The Boat on the Takase River)
This is the title of a famous novel by Mori Ogai.
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3 comments:
I love Takasebune much.
There remained many rivers' transportation that was once used before locomotion age.
Main ports of the ships were at the big towns.
I found same condition at Tone river and Chikuma river where Issa's sponsors had lived and enjoyed haiku with him.
Thank you Gabi san for pleasant Izumo road news.
sakuo.
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There will be more, Sakuo san !
Soon, I hope !
GABI
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What a beautiful image, haiku!
E. from America
ima tokeru yuki wo nagasu ya chikuma kawa
今解る雪を流や千曲川
the snow melting
now flows away...
Chikuma River
Kobayashi Issa
(Tr. David Lanoue)
The Shinano River (信濃川 Shinanogawa) is the longest river in Japan. It flows from Nagano Prefecture to Niigata Prefecture in Japan. It is 367km long (228 mi) and has 11,900 km² watershed (third largest in Japan). It is called the Chikuma River (千曲川 Chikumagawa) in Nagano Prefecture.
The river rises from Mount Kobushi on the border of Saitama, Yamanashi and Nagano, and flows to the northwest and meets the Sai River from Matsumoto. Kawanakajima (川中島), the junction of the Chikuma and the Sai, is the historic site where the Battles of Kawanakajima broke out. It turns to the northeast and empties into the Sea of Japan at Niigata City.
In 1922, the Ōkōzu Canal (大河津分水路 Ōkōzu Bunsuiro) was built to defend Niigata from floods. It enabled the Niigata Plains to be filled with rich rice fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinano_River
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