Horeki river improvement

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Horeki river improvement
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The Tokugawa 9th generation general Ieshige the Horeki river improvement which it is at the beginning of construction of Kiso 3 river, and is also called the greatest construction in Horeki3 (1753) It is the beginning to have ordered Shigetoshi Shimazu of Satsuma Domain which was an outside daimyo to perform the riparian work of Mikawa where a flood continues. And many difficulties and sacrifices were overcome and the construction by Satsuma Domain saw completion at last in 1755. Also after that, construction is succeeded with Meiji and Showa and has continued up to now. I thought that he could not forget for the shade in which a beautiful tulip blooms to have very many people's blood, sweat, and tears from ancient times.