karanos

Updated: June 7, 2025

The timbers of the superannuated ship were used as fuel for roasting salt, five hundred baskets of which were sent throughout the maritime provinces, with orders that by each body of recipients a ship should be constructed. Five hundred Karanos thus came into existence, and there was assembled at Hyogo such a fleet as had never previously been seen in Japanese waters.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era