The Kiso-gawa also rises in the high lands of Shinano, and, flowing southward, empties into Owari bay.
The Tone-gawa (gawa means river) is the longest and broadest of the rivers of Japan.
This castle was built with one side protected by the Kōbe-gawa and two lakes lying on the other sides, so that it was impossible to approach it by land with a large force.
Kamo-gawa canal and the Kamo-gawa itself a through route to Osaka, from which Kioto is 25 m.
It was there that the Nagase-gawa itself had been arrested at its issue from a narrow pass by a monster barrier of disrupted matter thrown right across its course.
The finest rice is produced in the fertile plains watered by the Tone-gawa in the province of Shimosa, but the grain of Kaga and of the two central provinces of Settsu and Harima is also very good.
Yoshiiye's magnanimity towards Sadato at the fortress of Koromo-gawa has always been held worthy of a true bushi.
Illustration: Effect of the Great Earthquake of 1891 on the Nagara Gawa Railway Bridge, Japan.
Over the Minato-gawa Kiver by an elevated bridge, and one finds himself in a broad street leading through Hiogo to Kobe.
Like many of the rivers of Japan, the bed of the Minato-gawa is elevated considerably above the surrounding plain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gawa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.