Kiso

Kiso is a long mountain valley of Shinano, its slopes covered in forests prized for timber. Under the Owari domain, wood was carried downriver and rafted toward the port of Shiratori, then sent by sea to Edo and Osaka. Heavy cutting threatened the resource, and the domain restricted felling of five valuable species, including hinoki cypress. These protected trees became known as the Kiso goboku, or five woods of Kiso.