Kamogawa Canal - Kamogawa Canal

...From Keage, it heads west, flows south along the east bank of the Kamo River, and reaches Fushimi, while a branch line runs north from Keage along the foot of Higashiyama Mountain, flows west through Shimogamo, and reaches Horikawa. The former is also called the Kamo River Canal, and the whole is usually called the Lake Biwa Canal. Plans to connect Lake Biwa with Kyoto by a waterway for maritime transport had existed many times from the early modern period to the early Meiji period, but it was not realized until the mid-Meiji period. ...

*Some of the terms mentioned in relation to the Kamogawa Canal are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…蹴上からは西に向かい，鴨川東岸を南流して伏見に至り，支線は蹴上から東山山麓を北上し，下鴨を西流して堀川に至る。前者を鴨川運河とも呼び，ふつうこれら全体を含めて琵琶湖疎水と称する。　琵琶湖と京都を水路で結び舟運に利用する計画は，すでに近世初期から明治初期までに何回も存在したが，実現したのは明治中期であった。…

※「鴨川運河」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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