Kawashiri

Japanese: 川尻 - かわしり

A river port at the mouth of the Midorikawa River, which flows through Higo Province, and an outer port under Kumamoto Castle. Currently part of Kumamoto City. Also written as Kawajiri. In the early Kamakura period, Kawajiri Saneaki, the land lord of Kawajiri Manor, built Kawajiri Castle and developed Kawajiri Port as a river port. During the Koan period (1278-1288), Saneaki's descendant Yasuaki invited Kangan Yoshitada to build the Kawajiri Owatari Bridge and built Daiji Temple on the temple grounds to the north. In the early modern period, the area became the property of Kato Kiyomasa. Kiyomasa established Kawajiri O-funa-te, which became the base for transporting military supplies for Kiyomasa's army during the Bunroku-Keicho War. During the period of the Hosokawa clan of the Kumamoto Domain, the area was governed by the town magistrate, and O-funa-te continued to be the base of the Kumamoto Domain navy. It also developed as a commercial port and was a post town on the Satsuma Kaido road. After the railway was opened, the port function was lost.

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Japanese:

肥後国を流れる緑川河口の河湊で，熊本城下の外港。現在熊本市に属する。河尻とも記される。鎌倉初期，河尻荘地頭河尻実明は河尻城を築き，河尻の津を河湊として整備発展させた。弘安年間（1278年−1288年）実明の子孫泰明は寒巌義尹を招き，河尻大渡(おおわたり)橋を架橋，その北を寺地として大慈寺を建立した。近世に入ると加藤清正の領有となる。清正は川尻御船手を置き，文禄・慶長の役の際には清正軍の軍事物資輸送の基地となった。熊本藩細川氏の時代になると町奉行による支配が行われ，御船手は引き続き熊本藩水軍の根拠地であった。商港としても発達し，また薩摩街道の宿場町でもあった。鉄道開通後は港の機能は失われた。

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