Kanjuro Canal - Kanjuro Canal

Japanese: 勘十郎堀 - かんじゅうろうぼり

A canal that connected the southwestern bank of Lake Hinuma in central Ibaraki Prefecture to the Tomoe River flowing into Kitaura. It was built in 1707-1709 by Matsunami Kanjuro, a samurai of the Mito Domain, to open an inland waterway from the mouth of the Nakagawa River to Lake Hinuma, Kitaura, the Tone River, Edo River, and Edo. It was a canal stretching about 8 km southwest from the southwestern bank of Lake Hinuma, passing through the Ebisawa River bank of the Tomoe River, to Momiji, Tomoe Village, but it was not used much because it was higher than the water level of the Tomoe River. The remains of the canal now remain as rice fields.

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Japanese:

茨城県中部，涸沼 (ひぬま) 南西岸から北浦へ流れる巴川へ通じていた運河。那珂川口－涸沼－北浦－利根川－江戸川－江戸の内陸水路を開くため，水戸藩士松波勘十郎によって，宝永4 (1707) ～5年に造られた。涸沼南西岸から巴川の海老沢河岸を経て，南西方向に巴村紅葉まで約 8kmの堀運河であったが，巴川の水面より高いのであまり利用されなかった。現在堀跡は水田として残っている。

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