Kiba
Land sold off to 15 lumber dealers in 1701. The name comes from the fact that there was a lumberyard here. The lumber dealers built embankments in all 4 directions, dug moats and implemented other measures for the transport of lumber, and the area thrived as the Edo lumber market.
Nishiki-e and Paintings
東都花暦 木場ノ魚釣
名所江戸百景 深川木場
Other Materials
Landmarks around Kiba
Suzaki benzaiten no Yashiro Shrine Sanjusangendo Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine Fukagawa Jumantsubo Mannen-bashi Bridge Eitai-bashi Bridge Tsukudajima Ekoin Temple Sazaido Teppozu
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