The Takase River ( 高瀬川 , Takase-gawa ) is a canal in Kyoto , Japan . It rises from Nijō - Kiyamachi , going along Kiyamachi Street, and meets the Uji River at Fushimi port. The canal crosses with the Kamo River on the way. Today the south half is not connected with Kamo River.
5-857: It was dug by Suminokura Ryōi in 1611, during the Edo period , to transport various goods and resources in the center of Kyoto . It made a great contribution to the development of the city and economic growth at that time. 35°00′44″N 135°46′12″E / 35.012329°N 135.769986°E / 35.012329; 135.769986 (Takasegawa Ichino-Funairi, 高瀬川一之船入 , Japanese national memorial, 1st port near Nijō-Kiyamachi) 34°58′23″N 135°45′52″E / 34.97319°N 135.764444°E / 34.97319; 135.764444 (Takase River flows into Kamo River) 34°55′17″N 135°45′12″E / 34.921473°N 135.753458°E / 34.921473; 135.753458 (Shin-Takase River flows into Uji River) This Kyoto Prefecture location article
10-526: A major role in constructing canals and making the rivers of Kyoto more navigable, so as to better ship goods to, from, and within the city. These included the Tenryū , Takase , Fujigawa , and Hozu rivers; in exchange for his efforts, the Suminokura business was granted extended shipping rights within the city. Ryōi's sons Suminokura Genshi and Soan followed in their father's footsteps, and took over
15-697: A trusted advisor and supplier to Tokugawa Ieyasu , who became shōgun in 1603, and continued his overseas operations, with a shuinjō granted by Ieyasu. Suminokura was conversant in Portuguese and served as an interpreter for the English pilot William Adams after Adams landed in Japan in 1600. Suminokura accompanied Adams to the Battle of Sekigahara , where Adams and his Dutch crew supported Tokugawa's army with cannon. Between 1605 and 1611, he also played
20-504: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in Japan is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Suminokura Ry%C5%8Di Suminokura Ryōi ( 角倉 了以 , 1554 – August 17, 1614) was a merchant and shipper of Edo period Kyoto . Along with the families of Chaya Shirōjirō and Gotō Shōzaburō , the Suminokura family , whose merchant enterprise Ryōi founded, represented one of
25-476: The three chief merchant families in the city in this period. Ryōi was born into a branch family of physicians and moneylenders. Like many commoner merchants of the period, he later came to be known by a name related to his work — Suminokura, or "corner warehouse". Ryōi obtained a formal trade license, a shuinjō , from Toyotomi Hideyoshi , and managed overseas trading operations, importing goods from southern Vietnam. After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, Ryōi became
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