[Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture] Even wealthy merchants with more financial power than feudal lords have appeared? The port of Sakata was filled with Kitamaebune ships.
Sakata (Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture) is a town that developed as a port town at the mouth of the Mogami River. During the Edo period, merchant ships from Osaka, Shikoku, Chugoku, western Kyushu, and other islands...