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Around 1840 · A Sea of Japan port · Coastal ports and a trading ship

Sell one cargo and load another

Ren, a kitamae sailor

Check the cargo and the goods sold and bought at the next port.

The trade is more than transport: cargo is sold and different goods are bought.

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Explore the diagram: A shipowner can also be the merchant
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A shipowner can also be the merchant

Do freight carriage and buying cargo for resale earn money in the same way?

A shipowner buys rice at a port and loads it onto a wooden sailing vessel, owning the goods.
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ShipownerPurchased riceWooden sailing vessel

Purchasing cargo requires money before resale.

The shipowner owns the cargo

In buying-and-selling voyages, shipowners purchase cargo for resale. This differs from carrying someone else’s goods for a freight payment.

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These illustrations explain processes and institutions rather than reconstructing actual people, buildings or layouts. Cutaways and insets show hidden structures or separate locations.

Kitamae ship museum ↗Kitamae heritage ↗

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A shipowner buys rice at a port and loads it onto a wooden sailing vessel, owning the goods.

A shipowner buys rice at a port and loads it onto a wooden sailing vessel, owning the goods.

Ren, twenty-two, the cargo master, merchants, cargo damage and port decisions are fictional. Route and allocation numbers are game conditions, not prices, days or ship capacity.

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Sources
  1. Kitamae ship museum ↗

    加賀市 · Owner-trading versus freight, chronology and routes.

  2. Kitamae ports and shipowner settlements ↗

    文化庁・日本遺産 · Trading on both legs, commodities and port heritage.

  3. Kitamae ships ↗

    石狩市 · Routes between Matsumae and Osaka, owner-trading and changing vessel forms.