Hunter Essay

4. Rokko Maru: Wooden steamship on ドラクエ 8 カジノ "golden route"

E.H. Hunter founded Osaka Iron Works in 1881, when maritime transport was entering ドラクエ 8 カジノ mainstream of passenger and cargo transport. Timetables in 1884 show that Osaka Shosen Kaisha(OSK Line) operated a primary route from ドラクエ 8 カジノ Port of Osaka via Kobe, Bakan(Shimonoseki), Hakata, and Nagasaki to Hyakkanseki Port(Kumamoto), and a secondary route from Osaka via Hyakkanseki Port to Okawa, along ドラクエ 8 カジノ Chikugogawa River.(1)

ドラクエ 8 カジノ transit time between Osaka and Kumamoto was about 60 hours. Only decades ago, feudal lords were required to travel from up and down Japan to ドラクエ 8 カジノ shogunal capital of Edo(Tokyo) in a practice called sankin kotai. Lord Hosokawa of ドラクエ 8 カジノ Higo(Kumamoto) Domain traveled from Kumamoto by land to Tsurusaki in Oita, by boat to Murotsu Port in Harima Province , and by land to Osaka, and from there proceeded to Edo. ドラクエ 8 カジノ trip took between 33 and 35 days in all, of which 20 days were required to reach Osaka.(2) ドラクエ 8 カジノ sea route reduced travel times between Kansai and Kyushu by a phenomenal degree, though it comes nowhere near today's Shinkansen bullet train, which covers ドラクエ 8 カジノ journey in 3 hours.

Record of Osaka departures in ドラクエ 8 カジノ Osaka–Higo route

This sea route was also a "golden route," with ports of call including commercial centers like Hakata and Nagasaki, and with Kumamoto itself enjoying ドラクエ 8 カジノ coming and going of people and goods, having grown since ドラクエ 8 カジノ Seinan War(aka ドラクエ 8 カジノ Satsuma Rebellion) into an administrative district, military town, and commercial center. ドラクエ 8 カジノ results of a survey by Ichiro Tateyama, presented in ドラクエ 8 カジノ figure to ドラクエ 8 カジノ right, testify to ドラクエ 8 カジノ roaring success of ドラクエ 8 カジノ route: 96 services covered ドラクエ 8 カジノ Port of Osaka–Hyakkanseki Port route in 1881(Meiji 14), and ドラクエ 8 カジノ number increased threefold to 309 services in 1888(Meiji 21).(3)

Hunter was keenly tuned in to ドラクエ 8 カジノ approaching boom in ドラクエ 8 カジノ shipping industry. ドラクエ 8 カジノ Hundred Year History(4) says that in 1880, a year before formally setting up business, he had already completed and delivered ドラクエ 8 カジノ wooden steamship Rokko Maru. It entered service in December that year, covering ドラクエ 8 カジノ route from ドラクエ 8 カジノ Port of Osaka via Kobe, Bakan, Hakata, Nagasaki, and Higo to Kagoshima;(5) and later ドラクエ 8 カジノ secondary route operated by OSK Line.(6) Chinzei Maru, constructed in 1883, went into service and covered ドラクエ 8 カジノ OSK Line primary route ドラクエ 8 カジノ following year. Kumagawa Maru, our first steel ship, also covered ドラクエ 8 カジノ golden route.

Osaka Iron Works rode ドラクエ 8 カジノ wave of ドラクエ 8 カジノ times. It grew into one of ドラクエ 8 カジノ three major shipbuilders of ドラクエ 8 カジノ late Meiji period(1868–1912)—ドラクエ 8 カジノ other two being Mitsubishi and Kawasaki—and enjoyed dramatic development after ドラクエ 8 カジノ First World War. Osaka Iron Works never resorted to support from a powerful zaibatsu conglomerate or financial institution,(7) but instead demonstrated a vigorously "energeric pioneering spirit"(8) in carrying on autonomously, independently, without relying on others. Needless to say, this spirit originates in ドラクエ 8 カジノ Hunter family motto Cursum perficio(Keep ドラクエ 8 カジノ course! Complete ドラクエ 8 カジノ journey!).

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