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03/27/2013 On a bluff overlooking the city of Ishinomaki, there stands a statue of a man in samurai garb. The man is Kawamura Magobe, who was famously commissioned around 1620 to make improvements to the Kitakami River. The various mergings, splittings, dredgings and carvings were responsible for turning Ishinomaki Port into one of the most important ports in Japan, supplying Edo (old Tokyo) with rice.
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River to...MANGATTAN | Students Rebuild
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03/27/2013 On a bluff overlooking the city of Ishinomaki, there stands a statue of a man in samurai garb. The man is Kawamura Magobe, who was famously commissioned around 1620 to make improvements to the Kitakami River. The various mergings, splittings, dredgings and carvings were responsible for turning Ishinomaki Port into one of the most important ports in Japan, supplying Edo (old Tokyo) with rice.
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