1. Tamagawa AqueductTamagawa Aqueduct is a 43 km long Japanese aqueduct that was constructed by the Tokugawa shogunate to supply drinking and firefighting water from the Tama river to Edo, providing irrigation water around farm villages. Construction of the aqueduct, which began in 1653, was preceded by the Bekko Shoemon arson conspiracy. Bekko led a group of rōnin who planned to depose and kill Ii Naotaka and his party.
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