See also my deep-dive on Koto-ku’s canals and lumber industry: The floating world of floating logs: the kiba of Koto-ku
Map 1: Koto-ku Shitamachi rivers and canals 下町河川の概要 (source)
There are eleven rivers that together form the Koto Interior River 江東内部河川 (source); they are:
- 旧中川 Old Nakagawa River (Kyu-Nakagawa)
- 大横川 Ooyokogawa
- 大島川西支川 Ooshimagawa Nishi-Shisengawa
- 大横川南支川
- 北十間川 Kitajikkengawa
- 横十間川 Yokojikkengawa (I believe)
- 仙台堀川 Sendaiborigawa
- 平久川 Heikyugawa (I believe)
- 小名木川 Onagigawa (appears as ‘Konaki River’ per Google Maps)
- 竪川 Tatekawa
- 越中島川 Etchūjimagawa
Map 2: from 図説 江戸・東京の川と水辺の事典 Dictionary Encyclopedia of Rivers and Watersides in Edo / Tokyo
Koto-ku is represented in the quadrant in the lower-left of the map.
Map 3: from The Lumber Industry in Early Modern Japan
Tokyo, circa 1880″
Map 4: Detail of the Etchujimagawa River 越中島川 (#11 in the list of interior rivers) (source)
Map 5: One more version of the Koto Interior River map 江東内部河川位置図 (source)
Map 6: Historical photos of Koto-ku (source)
See also:
- Koto-ku walking map: Clover Bridge, Onagigawa River, & Higashi-Ojima
- Elevation and flood maps of Tokyo
- Koto-ku tourism: Lucky Dragon boat and atomic tourism
- Canals of the Ginza: floating through time on Tokyo’s central waterways
- Lumberyards on the Takekawa in Honjo (Hokusai woodblock print)
- Nakagawa Funabansho Barge Museum 中川船番所資料館 /江東区中川船番所資料館
- Kiba lumber ponds of Koto-ku, 1946 map
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