Ship model bezaisen mokei 弁財船模型

bezaisen mokei 弁財船模型

The ship model bezaisen mokei 弁財船模型 comes from the model-building workshop Musashiya Kamakichi 武蔵屋鎌, which also created the house model of the daimyo residence. At the beginning of the Meiji period (1868-1912) the workshop was located in the Asakusa city district of Tokyo. This type of ship, represented in miniature, was also known as senkoku bune 千石船, since it transported a quantity of 1000 koku of rice (corresponding to ca. 278m³, or a cube with sides of ca. 6.5 m) from the south along the Japanese Pacific coast into the Kanto region (around Tokyo).