Title Shipping Iron and Steel

  • Shimane
Topic(s):
Historic Sites/Castle Ruins
Medium/Media of Use:
Interpretive Sign
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2023
Associated Tourism Board:
tetsu no michi bunkaken suishin kyogikai

鋼の流通 江戸時代(1603年~1867年)、鉄や鋼は太いわら縄で巻いた木箱で出荷されていた。ロープに編み込まれた輪は、どの方向からでも箱をつかむために使われた。。不注意な作業員が船積み中に重い荷物を海に落としても、沈む前にボートフックでループを引っ掛ければすぐに回収できる。


 安来を出港した船は当初、日本海沿岸を南西に向かい、その後関門海峡を東に回り、瀬戸内海を渡って大阪に向かった。しかし、この航路は18世紀半ばに拡張された。安来から北前船と呼ばれる商船が北東に向かい始め、日本最北端の島々を時計回りに周遊することで、大阪と北海道を結ぶ海上ネットワークが形成された。物資と人の流れが活発になった結果、安来は商業の中心地となった。

Shipping Iron and Steel


During the Edo period (1603–1867), iron and steel were shipped in wooden boxes wrapped in thick straw rope. Loops braided into the rope were used to grab the boxes from any side. If a careless worker dropped one of these heavy packages overboard while the boat was being loaded, the box could quickly be retrieved by snagging the loops with a boathook.

Shipments leaving Yasugi originally headed southwest, along the Sea of Japan coast, before circling east through the Kanmon Strait and up across the Seto Inland Sea to Osaka. This shipping route was extended in the mid-eighteenth century, and merchant boats called kitamaebune began heading northeast from Yasugi, looping clockwise around Japan’s northernmost islands and thereby creating a maritime network that linked Osaka and Hokkaido. As a result of the increased flow of goods and people, Yasugi became a thriving port town.

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