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• Proportional Linear Maps of the Gokaido
  ...sign of bridges, 90-degree turns in the road, and the approaches to [[post-stations]] and [[jokamachi|castle towns]] were given particular attention.
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• Nihonbashi
  ...i, as seen in [[Hiroshige]]'s [[ukiyo-e|woodblock print]] series "[[The 53 Stations of the Tokaido]]."]] ...nce, behind the castle. One of the chief shogunate offices for dispatching post-horses was located near the bridge.<ref name=edo/>
  5 KB (817 words) - 22:13, 29 February 2020
• Fushimi
  ...e Takase canal to the west and the [[Ujigawa|Uji River]] to the south, the post-town encompassed an area roughly 1 km east to west and roughly 4.6 km north |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
  3 KB (532 words) - 06:55, 19 July 2020
• Corvee
  ...reat to village prosperity, and to the very social fabric of village life. Post-station officials and brothel owners often countered, however, that prostit
  2 KB (384 words) - 19:12, 24 December 2014
• Tokaido
  ...shukuba''), and a series of checkpoints (''[[sekisho]]''). The fifty-three stations were formally established in [[1601]]/1, and the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokug ...', the overall average number of ''honjin'' per post-station was 2.1; post-stations had roughly 1.3 ''waki-honjin'' on average.<ref>Gallery labels, Futagawa-ju
  11 KB (1,712 words) - 06:59, 15 August 2020
• Morisuna
  ...by commoners, becoming a standard practice at ''honjin'' in [[shukuba|post-stations]] and port towns, and elsewhere.
  2 KB (362 words) - 02:15, 17 December 2016
• Prostitution
  ...tion was organized by male pimps, and took place increasingly in urban and post-station settings. However, the chaotic circumstances of the [[Sengoku perio
  19 KB (2,874 words) - 14:44, 8 July 2016
• Futagawa-juku
  ...ocated within the territory of [[Yoshida han]], from [[1643]] onwards, the post-town was overseen by a ''[[daikan]]'' appointed by the shogunate, rather th ...Futagawa, while the neighboring village of Ôiwa became its own "additional post station" (''kashuku''). The two villages were also removed from the territo
  12 KB (1,785 words) - 08:37, 21 June 2020
• Okitsu
  Okitsu was the 17th [[shukuba|post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô highway]]. Today, the town is part The post-station was home to two ''[[honjin]]'' and at least four ''waki-honjin''.
  5 KB (732 words) - 21:09, 17 July 2020
• Honjin
  ''Honjin'' were a special type of elite inn maintained in [[post-towns]] and port towns of [[Edo period]] Japan. They were most typically us ...], for example.</ref> and soon became standard fixtures in major ports and post-towns across the realm.
  21 KB (3,226 words) - 06:15, 17 July 2020
• Highways
  ...ned fifty-three ''[[sekisho]]'' (barriers, or checkpoints), and 248 [[post-stations]], or ''shukuba'', which ranged in their spacing; in some parts, it was rou These post-towns were run chiefly by commoners, who were able to make personal profit
  14 KB (2,115 words) - 09:41, 14 May 2020
• Nagaoka han
  ...ma han|Satsuma]] and [[salt]] from [[Choshu han|Chôshû]]. Many of the post-stations (''shukuba'') along the realm's major [[highways]] recruited in Echigo for
  4 KB (592 words) - 15:58, 22 December 2014
• Hojo Ujiyasu
  ...and creating an artisan's guild within the castle town. In addition, post stations and market places sprung up throughout the Hôjô's lands.
  5 KB (819 words) - 20:40, 30 January 2016
• Satto
  ...nd with China and Japan, via a number of small islands which served as way-stations. [[Tanegashima]], for example, was used as a transfer and supply point for Another important development introduced by Satto was the creation of the post of ''Ô-shô'' (王相), or King's Assistant. Though direct monarchical rul
  6 KB (965 words) - 02:55, 13 January 2020
• Goryeo
  ...vertheless interfered in Korea on a number of occasions, establishing post stations, conducting population surveys, and demanding hostages, provisions, and tro
  6 KB (884 words) - 08:09, 18 August 2020
• Sankin kotai
  ...', and by others of similar status, quickly became standard sights in most post-towns after the 1642 expansion of ''sankin kôtai'' obligations.<ref name=h
  23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:10, 17 July 2020
• Naha
  ...ck tower center; the City Auditorium (''kôkaidô'', right); and blue-roofed post office in the foreground.]] ...o the Naha City Auditorium (那覇市公会堂, ''Naha shi kôkaidô''), police and fire stations, banks, theatres, and numerous notable shops and businesses. This incarnati
  25 KB (3,835 words) - 04:01, 18 September 2021
• Battle of Tsushima
  ...debris on the decks, -piles of dead bodies. Signaling and judging distance stations, gun-directing positions, all were destroyed. And astern of us the [[Alexan ...exist. Each man is detailed for some particular duty, and told off to his post in action. The only source which we could tap was the crews of the 47 milli
  28 KB (4,846 words) - 23:03, 29 April 2018
• Edo Period
  ...her. Many of these women, even low [[meshimori onna|serving girls]] from [[post station]] inns, had knowledge of fashions, music, dance, and so forth from Travel guides and landscape prints such as the "53 Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] by [[Hiroshige]], and various works of ''[[mei
  63 KB (9,886 words) - 08:43, 29 August 2020

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