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It gave the local populace a healthy income and began two important elements in the city’s history, the predominance of the merchant classes and the use of barges for inland trade.
Along the river on either side of Magere Brug are a number of wonderful barges moored on the banks.
In the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, the canals were used to carry rice and grain in barges for onward shipment to the great markets of Osaka and Edo.
The Grand Canal is crowded with strings of barges laden with fruit and vegetables, construction materials, or coal.
Later, this was the waterway employed by imperial barges when the emperor desired an outing.