A Sengoku-period flood-control heritage site in Ryuchi/Ryuo, Kai City. The embankment was built by Takeda Shingen to protect against flooding of the Kamanashi River (upper reaches of the Fuji River) and is designated a national historic site. The composite system of stone deflectors, weir heads, and levees represented the most advanced civil engineering of its day and continues to be studied today…
Shingen's Embankment (信玄堤) is a flood-control system constructed by the Sengoku warlord Takeda Shingen along the Kamanashi River (upper Fuji River) in the mid-sixteenth century. The Kai region, where the Fuefuki, Kamanashi, and Midai rivers converge on low-lying ground, had long suffered repeated fl…
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