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| − | *''Japanese'': 西廻り航路 ''(nishimawari kouro)''
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| − | The ''Nishimawari kôro'', or "Western Circuit Shipping Route," was the longest, and busiest (in terms of volume of goods) of three major domestic maritime shipping routes in the [[Edo period]]. It connected [[Ezo]] and [[Osaka]] via the [[Sea of Japan]], the [[Straits of Shimonoseki]], and the [[Inland Sea]], along with a number of ports located in between Ezo and Osaka, especially along the Sea of Japan coast.
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| − | The other two major shipping routes were the [[Kamigata Shipping Route]], or ''Kamigata kôro'', connecting Osaka and [[Edo]], and the [[Eastern Circuit]] Shipping Route, or ''Higashimawari kôro'', which linked Edo with Pacific coast ports to the north and east.
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| − | ==References==
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| − | *Moriya, Katsuhisa. Ronald Toby (trans.) "Urban Networks and Information Networks." in Chie Nakane and Shinzaburô Ôishi (eds.) ''Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press, 1990. pp97-123.
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| − | [[Category:Economics]]
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| − | [[Category:Edo Period]]
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