Nature & geography・Ibaraki Place-Name Challenge

Kinu River

A first-class river flowing through the eastern Kanto Plain, originally called "Kenokai" and later written with characters for "cloth river" or "silk river" from medieval into early-modern times, before the current characters became standard in the early Meiji era.

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