Kisarazu ship

Japanese: 木更津船 - きさらづぶね

[Noun] A small cargo ship that traveled between Kisarazu in Kazusa Province (Chiba Prefecture) and Edo. During the Siege of Osaka in 1614, Kisarazu sailors served under the Tokugawa navy and distinguished themselves, so the ship was granted various privileges by the shogunate, and in addition to transporting rice for the castle as an official ship of the shogunate, it was also engaged in transporting merchant rice, firewood, charcoal, passengers, and other items, becoming the mainstay of water transport within Edo Bay and playing a major role in the distribution and transportation of goods. The ship was a hybrid of a sea vessel and a river vessel, known as a Godairyoku, and was longer and thinner than a regular Bensai-type cargo ship, with a shallower draft. It also had a platform on the side for using the oars, giving it the functionality of a river vessel, and was about 100 to 300 koku in size. *Zappai, Kikutasuri (1766) "A Kisarazu boat with enkiri ga nori"

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Japanese:

〘名〙上総国（千葉県）木更津と江戸を往来した小廻しの廻船。慶長一九年（一六一四）の大坂の陣に木更津の水夫が徳川水軍麾下にあって功をたてたので、幕府から種々の特権を与えられ、幕府の御用船として御城米廻送を行なうほか、商人米・薪炭・乗客などの輸送に従事し、江戸湾内水運の主力となって商品流通・交通に大きな役割を果たした。船は五大力と称する海船と川船との折衷型で、通常の弁才型荷船に比べて細長く喫水が浅い。また、舷側には棹を使うための足場を設け、川船としての機能をもたせてあり、百石積から三百石積くらいの大きさであった。※雑俳・菊多摺（1766）「きさらず舟に縁切が乗」

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