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is a 43 km long Japanese aqueduct located in Tokyo. It was constructed by the Tokugawa shogunate to supply drinking and fire-fighting water from the Tama river to Edo, providing irrigation water around farm villages. The aqueduct was created following a request for permission from the people of Kojimachi and Shibaguchi to build another aqueduct, drawing the waters of the Tama river. The government provided 7,500 ryo for the construction, 3,000 ryo were collected by public subscription. Construction on the 43 km long aqueduct, which runs from Hamura, Tokyo to Yotsuya, Tokyo, began in April 1653. The section from Hanemura to was fully excavated within eight months and the entire aqueduct was completed in eighteen months. The project was undertaken by the Seiemon brothers who were awarded the surname "Tamagawa" in honour of their accomplishment. Prior to the construction, the two brothers were considered "mere peasants". Before the construction of the aqueduct the city was served by a single, and insufficient, Kanda Aqueduct. In 1948, Osamu Dazai, considered one of the foremost fiction writers of 20th-century Japan, drowned in the aqueduct together with his wife. Dazai had been living in Mitaka, Tokyo, through which the aqueduct runs, since 1939. File:TamagawaJosui3810.jpg|Tamagawa Aqueduct in Hamura File:玉川上水.JPG|Tamagawa Aqueduct in Tachikawa File:TamagawaJosui_nearKoganeiPark2.JPG|Tamagawa Aqueduct in Koganei File:TamagawaJosui@Daitabashi.JPG|Tamagawa Aqueduct near Daitabashi Station, Setagaya ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tamagawa Aqueduct」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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