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• Hamamatsu
  ...s the central [[castle-town]] of [[Hamamatsu han]]. It was also the 29th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. [[Hamamatsu castle]] was One of the largest Tôkaidô post-stations, Hamamatsu was home to six ''[[honjin]]'', 94 ''[[hatagoya]]'' inns, and 1,
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• Bunsei Reforms
  ...to numerous raids upon post-station inns & brothels, and to pressure from post-station officials to ease up on enforcement of the new reforms; in the end,
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• Meshimori onna
  ''Meshimori onna'' were serving girls employed at [[post-station]] inns, many of whom were indentured to the inn and served as [[pro ...Meanwhile, since [[1718]], the shogunate permitted inns in more rural post-stations to have up to two serving girls per establishment. Inns quickly surpassed t
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• Chatsubo dochu
  ...yô]]''. The post-stations were also obliged to provide porters and [[denma|post-horses]].
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• Tenma
  ...ns]] who oversaw the supply and provision of porters and post-horses. Each post-station along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] was obliged to keep one hundred men ...se, it had one ''toiyaba'' in town, and one in the neighboring "additional post-station" town of Kashuku Ôiwa; two alternated being open and active once e
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• Yoshida-juku
  Yoshida was the 34th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. In [[1843]], the surroun The post-station was within the territory of [[Mikawa Yoshida han]].
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• Kosatsu
  ...rvices within the town, including the prices for hiring porters or [[denma|post-horses]] to carry luggage as far as the next station or river-crossing.<ref
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• Toiyaba
  *''Other Names'': 伝馬所 ''(denmasho; post horse station)'', 会所 ''(kaisho; meeting place)'' ...s. Post-horses known as ''[[denma]]'' were typically used only between one post-station and the next, in a relay fashion; couriers or others carrying packa
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• Moriyama-juku
  ...pg|right|thumb|400px|Moriyama as depicted in [[Hiroshige|Hiroshige's]] "69 Stations of the Kiso Kaidô" series]] Moriyama-juku was the 67th of the 69 [[post-station]]s along the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]] highway. It is today located
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• Hakone
  ...elevation of 725 meters above sea level, Hakone was the highest [[shukuba|post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]].<ref>Gallery labels, National Mus One of the larger post-stations, Hakone was home to six ''[[honjin]]''.<ref>Miyamoto Tsuneichi 宮本常一
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• Goyu
  Goyu was the 35th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. In [[1843]], the surroun |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Akasaka-juku
  Akasaka was the 36th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. In [[1843]], the surroun |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Fujikawa-juku
  Fujikawa was the 37th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. In [[1843]], the surroun |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Nikko Dochu
  ...ay were located roughly five kilometers apart on average. The various post-stations along the highway had 23 ''[[honjin]]'' and 29 ''waki-honjin'' in total.<re
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• 1718
  ...meshimori onna|serving girls]] (i.e. allowing [[prostitution]]). Many post stations see a rise in their economic prosperity in subsequent years as a result.
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• Yokkaichi
  ...ty in [[Mie prefecture]], and in the [[Edo period]] was the 43rd of the 53 stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. ...thousand homes in Yokkaichi, making it ten times as large as some smaller post-towns (such as [[Sakashita-juku]]), though of course still far smaller than
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• Odawara-juku
  ...oday serves as rest station & visitor center discussing the history of the post-town.]] ...province]] (today, [[Kanagawa prefecture]], was the ninth [[post-stations|post-station]] from [[Edo]] ([[Nihonbashi]]) on the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô Highway]
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• Saya kaido
  ...short detour from the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]. It connected the Tôkaidô [[post-stations]] of [[Miya-juku]] and [[Kuwana-juku]] via a shorter boat trip than the mor
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• Fujisawa
  ...do period]], the area was home to Fujisawa-juku, of the fifty-three [[post-stations]] (''shukuba'') of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] [[Highways|Highway]]. |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Nakasendo
  ...in total, amounting to roughly 1.1 ''honjin'' and 1.5 ''waki-honjin'' per post-station on average.<ref>Gallery labels, Futagawa-juku honjin shiryôkan.[ht ...existed in some form during the [[Sengoku period]], but the [[shukuba|post-stations]], [[sekisho|checkpoints]], and so forth along the highway were formalized
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• Fukaya
  Fukaya in northern [[Musashi province]] was a [[post station]] (''shukuba'') along the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]]. ...iet agricultural [[castle town]] in the early 18th century into a bustling post-station and entertainment district by the early 19th. It went from having t
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• Sekifuda
  ...tional ''sekifuda'' were also typically hung at the gates to the [[shukuba|post-town]]. ...nerally being welcomed with plaques hung at least at both entrances to the post-town and at the ''honjin'', while a smaller ''daimyô'' might be welcomed (
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• Mino Road
  ...u was located in the castletown of the lord of Ôgaki, the remainder of the stations fell within the territory of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] of [[Owari han]] ( ==Stations==
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• Unno-juku
  Unno-juku was a [[post-station]] town in [[Shinano province]] (modern-day [[Nagano prefecture]]) w ...ter a flood in [[1742]] destroyed much of Tanaka, Unno was named the chief post-town of the area. The Fujita family, a family of wholesalers, were named he
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• Narumi-juku
  ...a short distance from [[Atsuta Shrine]] in [[Nagoya]]. The 40th of the 53 stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]], Narumi was home to one of the largest ''[[hon The post-station was also home to the [[Zen]] temple [[Zuisen-ji (Nagoya)|Zuisen-ji]
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• Ejiri
  Ejiri was the 18th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. ...a fortress ([[Ejiri castle]]) in the area. The formal establishment of the post-station in 1601 brought expansion of the town, which included or was supple
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• Maisaka
  Maisaka was the 30th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Shirasuka-juku
  Shirasuka was the 32nd [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. In [[1843]], the surroun |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Okazaki
  The [[Okazaki castle|castle-town]] of Okazaki was also a major [[shukuba|post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]. |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Fuchu-juku
  Fuchû-juku was the 19th [[post-station]] along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway. It was located in the [[ |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Mikawa Yoshida han
  ...-no-kami, a lord who regularly held the title of ''[[jiju|jijû]]'' and the post of ''[[roju|rôjû]]''. This branch of the Matsudaira clan claimed descent The domain contained within its territory the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] [[post-stations]] of [[Yoshida-juku]] and [[Arai-juku]], along with the associated ''[[seki
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• Arai sekisho
  ...dô]] highway, located between [[Maisaka]] and [[Shirasuka]] [[shukuba|post-stations]], in what is today Kosai City, [[Shizuoka prefecture]]. It is the only suc |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Otsu
  ...estern shore of [[Lake Biwa]]. In the [[Edo period]], Ôtsu was a [[shukuba|post-station]] at the intersection of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]], [[Nakasendo|Nak |width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
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• Toyuso
  ...ng the Ryukyuans' journey, not only in [[Edo]], but in port towns and post-stations all along the route.
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• Koshu Kaido
  ...の旅, Tokyo: Shakai shisôsha (1968), 57.</ref> The forty-five [[shukuba|post-stations]] along the highway had a total of 41 ''[[honjin]]'' and 44 ''waki-honjin'' The 45 stations of the Kôshû-kaidô were roughly 4.2 km away from one another; in 1843, e
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• Yodo-juku
  ...[[Ujigawa]], and [[Katsuragawa]] rivers, to the south of [[Fushimi]]. The post-town was home to some 2800 people at its peak, and over 830 buildings, of w ...ing its role as a center of trade and travel, the combined [[castle-town]]/post-town of Yodo became the base of some 500 "Yodo-bune" boats, the seat of the
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• Kusatsu-juku
  Kusatsu was the third-to-last [[shukuba|post-station]] on both the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] and [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]] [[ ...onjin'' was where the two diverged. Traveling north from Ôtsu, through the post-town, the road historically came directly to a river crossing, where travel
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• Denma
  ...en one [[post-station]] (''shukuba'') and the next; after arriving in each post-station, couriers or porters would change for new horses at the town's ''[[ ...or, with the right papers, they were entitled to be provided with porters, post-horses, and other services for free. Those paying set prices included ''dai
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• Sakuragawa Jihinari
  ...with an image and poetry relating to [[Kawasaki-juku]], one of the [[post-stations]] of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]]] ...phy. The book contains a painting and accompanying poem for each of the 53 stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]].
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• Hikyaku
  ...|shogunate]] in [[Edo]]. The messengers made use of horses made ready at [[post towns]] along the way - in theory, three horses ready and available at any
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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/>
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• 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]]'''
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• 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
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• 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
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• Morisuna
  ...by commoners, becoming a standard practice at ''honjin'' in [[shukuba|post-stations]] and port towns, and elsewhere.
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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''.
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• 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.
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