Tamana

Tamana lies beside the lower Kikuchi River in northern Higo. At Takase, warehouses and landing places gathered the rice owed to the Kumamoto domain before it was shipped to market. Higo rice earned a strong reputation at Osaka's Dōjima exchange, while boats also carried barley, beans and rapeseed from the port. Embankments and the development of former tidal flats expanded the fields behind this busy river town.