− | Futagawa-juku was the 33rd of the 53 stations of the [[Tokadio|Tôkaidô]] [[highways|highway]]. Located in [[Mikawa province]], within what is today the city of [[Toyohashi]], [[Aichi prefecture]], Futagawa was a small [[post-town]], home to some 1,468 residents in 328 homes (as of [[1843]]). One ''[[honjin]]'' and one ''waki-honjin'' were maintained to serve as lodgings for the ''daimyô'' and other elite figures who regularly passed through the town; thirty-eight ''[[hatagoya]]'' catered to other travelers. | + | Futagawa-juku was the 33rd of the 53 stations of the [[Tokadio|Tôkaidô]] [[highways|highway]]. Located in [[Mikawa province]], within what is today the city of [[Toyohashi]], [[Aichi prefecture]], Futagawa was a small [[post-town]], home to some 1,468 residents in 328 homes (as of [[1843]]). One ''[[honjin]]'' and one ''waki-honjin'' were maintained to serve as lodgings for the ''daimyô'' and other elite figures who regularly passed through the town; thirty-eight ''[[hatagoya]]'' catered to other travelers. The post-town was overseen by a ''[[daikan]]'' appointed by the shogunate, rather than coming under the authority of the local ''daimyô''.<ref>Asao Naohiro (ed.), ''Fudai daimyô Ii ke no girei'', Hikone Castle Museum (2004), 331.</ref> |