Kyoko - Kyoko

…The Jialing River became navigable as far as Shaanxi's Yangtze River, and shipping developed, with Changde in Hunan Province and Nanchang in Jiangxi Province also prospering as commercial cities. The name Yangtze River was derived from the fact that there was a ferry terminal, Yangzijin, between Yangzhou in Jiangsu Province and Dantu and Jingkou in Zhenjiang during this period, and the nearby Yangtze River was first called the Yangtze River or Jingjiang River, and later extended to the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Incidentally, just as the word "river" means the Yellow River, the word "river" can also simply mean the Yangtze River. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kyoei" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…嘉陵江は陝西省略陽まで航行可能となり航運も発達，湖南省常徳や江西省南昌なども商業都市として栄えた。揚子江の名はこの時代，江蘇省揚州と鎮江の丹徒，京口の間に，渡し場揚子津があったことから，まず付近の長江が揚子江または京江とよばれ，のち長江下流一帯におよんだものである。なお，〈河〉といえば黄河を意味するように，単に〈江〉と称して長江を意味する場合もある。…

※「京江」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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