River boat

…After truck transport took over, Yoshino lumber began to be shipped from Gojo to Sakurai, and Wakayama City has now become an import port for foreign lumber. Meanwhile, until the Kii-Wa Railway (now the JR Wakayama Line) opened along the river at the end of the Meiji period, 30-koku ships called kawakami-bune transported goods between Hashimoto and Wakayama on the Kinokawa River. Since few bridges were built on the Kinokawa River until the Meiji period, ferries developed upstream, such as Hashimoto-watari (Hashimoto City), Kudoyama-watari (Kudoyama Town), Ouzu-watari (Naka Town), and Tainose-watari (Wakayama City), many of which also served as ferries for boats going up and down the river. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "river ships" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…トラック輸送に代わってから吉野材は五条から桜井へ出荷され始め，現在では和歌山市は外材の輸入港へと性格が変わった。一方，明治末に紀和鉄道(現，JR和歌山線)が川沿いに開通するまで，紀ノ川では川上船と呼ばれる30石船が，橋本～和歌山の間で物資の輸送を行ってきた。紀ノ川では明治までほとんど架橋されなかったため上流から橋本渡(橋本市)，九度山渡(九度山町)，麻生津（おうづ）渡(那賀町)，田井ノ瀬渡(和歌山市)などの渡場が発達し，その多くは上下船の船津を兼ねていた。…

※「川上船」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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