Kitaogawara

...The Iga River, which flows west from the Iga Basin, and the Nabari River, which flows north through the Yamato Plateau, join at Yumegenkyo Gorge in the center to form the Kizu River, which then flows west into Kasagi Town. In the early modern period, Kitaokawara was part of the Yamato Yagyu Domain, and was a distribution center for goods shipped by boat on the Kizu River, and was also connected by the highway linking Kyoto and Iga. Dosenbo in the northern plateau was uninhabited in the Edo period, but in the early Meiji period, Kyoto Prefecture developed it as part of a samurai employment program, and tea and tomatoes were cultivated there.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kitaogawara" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…伊賀盆地から西流してきた伊賀川と，大和高原を北流してきた名張川が，中央部の夢絃峡で合して木津川となり，西流して笠置町に入る。近世は大和柳生藩領で，北大河原は木津川舟運の物資集散地であり，京と伊賀を結ぶ街道も通じていた。北部高原の童仙房（どうせんぼう）は江戸時代は無住の山野であったが，明治初年京都府が士族授産事業として開拓，茶やトマトの栽培が行われる。…

※「北大河原」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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