Fukaya
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Fukaya in northern Musashi province was a post station (shukuba) along the Nakasendô.
It developed from a quiet agricultural castle town in the early 18th century into a bustling post-station and entertainment district by the early 19th. It went from having twenty-two inns in the mid-18th century to around eighty in the 1830s, and as prostitution became stronger in the area, the gender balance shifted from a total local population of roughly 900 men and 835 women in 1800 to around 900 men and 1000 women only forty-two years later.
| Preceded by: Kumagaya-juku |
Stations of the Nakasendô | Succeeded by: Honjô-juku |
References
- Amy Stanley, Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan, UC Press (2012), 134-162.
