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The ''Chôsenjin kaidô'', or "Koreans' Highway," was the route taken by [[Korean embassies to Edo]] from [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] to [[Narumi]]. Not a set single highway, like the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]], it was a route which made use of various roads, bypassing the Tôkaidô and passing through or past a number of towns not along the Tôkaidô, including [[Hikone]], [[Ogaki|Ôgaki]], and [[Nagoya]]. Though an informal name, the term ''Chôsenjin kaidô'' began to appear on official [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]]-sponsored maps in the early 19th century.

The ''Chôsenjin kaidô'', or "Koreans' Highway," was the route taken by [[Korean embassies to Edo]] from [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] to [[Narumi]]. Not a set single highway, like the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]], it was a route which made use of various roads, bypassing the Tôkaidô and passing through or past a number of towns not along the Tôkaidô, including [[Hikone]], [[Ogaki|Ôgaki]], and [[Nagoya]]. Though an informal name, the term ''Chôsenjin kaidô'' began to appear on official [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]]-sponsored maps in the early 19th century.

Much of the envoys' journey from Korea to Osaka and Kyoto was by boat; after entering Kyoto on land, the envoys' traveled the ''Chôsenjin kaidô'' from Ôtsu to Narumi, and then from [[Atsuta]] to [[Edo]] traveled the Tôkaidô.

Much of the envoys' journey from Korea to Osaka and Kyoto was by boat; after entering Kyoto on land, the envoys' traveled the ''Chôsenjin kaidô'' from Ôtsu to Narumi, and then from [[Atsuta]] to [[Edo]] traveled the Tôkaidô. A portion of this "by-passing" route, from Moriyama to Toriimoto, was also known as the Hamakaidô, and had a special association with [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]. Its use was restricted to shogunal use, and to the Korean missions, and was forbidden to other travelers, even to ''daimyô'' on their ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' journeys. This was the route Tokugawa Ieyasu used when returning to the [[Kanto|Kantô]] after the [[battle of Sekigahara]], bypassing the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]]; it was also used by [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] on his journey to and from Kyoto in [[1634]].

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==References==

*Toby, Ronald. “Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular Culture.” ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 41:4 (Winter 1986). pp 420-421n.

*Toby, Ronald. “Carnival of the Aliens: Korean Embassies in Edo-Period Art and Popular Culture.” ''Monumenta Nipponica'' 41:4 (Winter 1986). pp 420-421n.