The kitamaebune (北前船, "northern-bound ships") was a shipping route (and also the ships involved) in Japan from the Edo period to the Meiji era. The route...

established. The port of Niigata was also of major importance in the coastal kitamaebune trading system. The area became a battleground during the Battle of Hokuetsu...

have been brought by merchants from Kansai and Hokuriku following the Kitamaebune ("northern-bound ships") trading route. Also spoken on Hokkaidō is the...

medicine and washi (Japanese paper). Also, thanks to the improvement of kitamaebune sea transportation routes, these industries thrived and Toyama became...

Hokuriku dialect Hokuriku Expressway Hokuriku Main Line Hokuriku Shinkansen Kitamaebune Kōshin'etsu region Shin'etsu region Tōhoku region Tōkai region Nussbaum...

influential Sakai clan. The town remained an important port for the kitamaebune coastal trade, and was the starting point of the Saba-kaidō ("Mackerel...

in Kobe as a sailor. He earned sufficient money to purchase his own Kitamaebune trading ship and sailed to Hakodate in the summer of 1796. He set up...

Route 459 National Route 460 The Port of Niigata served as a part of kitamaebune during Edo era, and became one of the five open ports according to the...

Sankyo Warehouse in Sakata City, related to Kitamaebune and transport on Mogami River....

to only 12,000 koku. The province was a frequent port of call for the Kitamaebune coastal trading ships during the Edo period. Following the Meiji Restoration...

Obama Domain and Tsuruga Domain, and prospered as a major port on the kitamaebune shipping routes between western Japan and Hokkaido. Following the Meiji...

the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. It remained a noted seaport for the Kitamaebune coastal trade between Osaka and Hokkaido. Following the Meiji restoration...

in the Muromachi period, the area developed as a major center for the kitamaebune coastal trade during the Edo period. By the early Meiji period, the Honma...

and rebuilt the ancient port town as a jōkamachi and a centre for the kitamaebune coastal trade network. The Kyōgoku clan were transferred to Izumo Province...

one of the 36 chartered merchant families in Sakata who controlled the kitamaebune trade with Osaka and western Japan via the Sea of Japan and Seto Inland...

to only 12,000 koku. The province was a frequent port of call for the Kitamaebune coastal trading ships during the Edo period. The exact location of the...

Zoku-Jōmon artefacts, objects from the Satsumon culture, goods brought by the kitamaebune, and materials relating to the Battle of Hakodate. The building in which...

construction A noren, or shop curtain, showing tanmono-based construction The Kitamaebune carried cotton northwards. Tanmono-based sails, c. 1900 Three-panel sail...

served as the capital of the Shōnai Domain. It was a minor port for the kitamaebune coastal trade. After the start of the Meiji period, the area organized...

During the Edo period, Noshiro port was an important port of call on the Kitamaebune route of coastal trade from Osaka to Hokkaido and an important source...

the holdings of Chōshū Domain and prospered as a port-of-call for the kitamaebune coastal trade. Following the Meiji restoration, the villages of Mitsui...

during the Edo period, as one of the most important ports of call on the Kitamaebune trading routes of coastal from Osaka to Hokkaido, rivaling Sakai in revenue...

of pig iron from the Aizu Domain, which was transported to Niigata by Kitamaebune and then delivered to Aizu via the Aganogawa River. From 1802 to 1825...

part of the holdings of Chōshū Domain and prospered as a port for the kitamaebune coastal trade. Following the Meiji restoration, the village of Kaminoseki...

holdings of the Sakai clan at Shonai Domain and an occasional port for the kitamaebune coastal trading vessels. As of April 1950, the village of Tobishima and...

Statue of Amida Nyorai (ja); Toide Otaya (ja); Shōkō-ji (ja); Fushiki Kitamaebune Museum (Former Akimoto Family Residence) Takaoka Mikurumayama festival...

Kyōgoku clan, Obama was rebuilt into a jōkamachi and a center for the kitamaebune coastal trade network between Ezo and the Kansai region. The Kyōgoku...

Nanbu. The Tsugaru attempted to redevelop Tosaminato as a port on the kitamaebune trade routes to take their rice and timber to markets in Osaka and to...

merchant houses of Sakata during the Edo Period, growing rich on the kitamaebune coastal trade and by moneylending. During the Meiji period, they were...

outbreak that swept the island in 1624. Takeda Nobuhiro Shinra no Kiroku Kitamaebune Ichirizuka 松前公広 [Matsumae Kinhiro]. Nihon Daimyō Daijiten 日本人名大辞典 (in...