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*''Japanese'': 七里の渡し ''(shichiri no watashi)''
Shichiri no watashi ("seven [[Japanese Measurements|ri]] crossing") was a ferryboat crossing along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway, connecting [[Kuwana-juku]] to the west with [[Miya-juku]] ([[Nagoya]] [[jokamachi|castle-town]]) to the east across the northernmost tip of [[Ise Bay]].
Despite the short distance, crossing only the narrow tip of Ise Bay, the distance of seven ''ri'' being a tiny fraction of the distance across the bay at its widest points, this was nevertheless a dangerous crossing. In [[1671]]/9, a [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy]] on its way back from [[Edo]] encountered a storm on the bay and was scattered; amazingly, no one was killed, but members of the embassy drifted to a number of villages around the bay and it took some time, effort, and resources to get them all back together. Though the [[1710]] embassy used this ferry crossing again, all other Ryukyuan embassies (in [[1682]] and from [[1714]] onward) avoided the danger by taking the [[Mino Road]], a northerly inland route, rather than the Tôkaidô water crossing.<ref>''Gyôretsu ni miru kinsei: bushi to ikoku to sairei to'' 行列にみる近世: 武士と異国と祭礼と. Sakura, Chiba: National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku)(2012), 114.; ''Minoji wo yuku Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 美濃路をゆく琉球使節, Bisai Museum of History and Folklore 尾西市歴史民俗資料館, Bisai, Aichi (2004), 4.; Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 86.</ref> At times, certain elite travelers such as shoguns and emperors took an even shorter ferry crossing, known as the [[Saya kaido|Saya kaidô]], also in order to avoid the danger of the Shichiri-no-watashi crossing.<ref>''Aisai-shi megurutto'' (愛西市めぐるっと) tourism pamphlet, Aisai City, Aichi prefecture.</ref>
==Nagoya==
The ferryboat landing at the eastern, Nagoya, end of the crossing was considered the "gateway to Nagoya," and was one of the primary sites through which people and goods came into the castle-town from [[Osaka]] and [[Kyoto]] to the west or from [[Edo]] to the east. [[Nagoya han]] established a guardhouse (''funabansho'', to the west of the ''hama torii''), trading houses (''funa [[kaisho]]''), and the like near the landing, as well as small "eastern" and "western bayside mansions" (''higashi'' and ''nishi hama goten'') for the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] lords of the domain. The two ''[[honjin]]'' of Miya-juku were a short distance away, and the streets nearby were lined with ''[[hatagoya]]'', ''[[funayado]]'', and other types of inns for travelers.<ref>Plaques on-site at Shichiri-no-watashi.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/31362860297/sizes/l/]</ref>
==Kuwana==
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
Shichiri no watashi ("seven [[Japanese Measurements|ri]] crossing") was a ferryboat crossing along the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway, connecting [[Kuwana-juku]] to the west with [[Miya-juku]] ([[Nagoya]] [[jokamachi|castle-town]]) to the east across the northernmost tip of [[Ise Bay]].
Despite the short distance, crossing only the narrow tip of Ise Bay, the distance of seven ''ri'' being a tiny fraction of the distance across the bay at its widest points, this was nevertheless a dangerous crossing. In [[1671]]/9, a [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy]] on its way back from [[Edo]] encountered a storm on the bay and was scattered; amazingly, no one was killed, but members of the embassy drifted to a number of villages around the bay and it took some time, effort, and resources to get them all back together. Though the [[1710]] embassy used this ferry crossing again, all other Ryukyuan embassies (in [[1682]] and from [[1714]] onward) avoided the danger by taking the [[Mino Road]], a northerly inland route, rather than the Tôkaidô water crossing.<ref>''Gyôretsu ni miru kinsei: bushi to ikoku to sairei to'' 行列にみる近世: 武士と異国と祭礼と. Sakura, Chiba: National Museum of Japanese History (Rekihaku)(2012), 114.; ''Minoji wo yuku Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 美濃路をゆく琉球使節, Bisai Museum of History and Folklore 尾西市歴史民俗資料館, Bisai, Aichi (2004), 4.; Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 86.</ref> At times, certain elite travelers such as shoguns and emperors took an even shorter ferry crossing, known as the [[Saya kaido|Saya kaidô]], also in order to avoid the danger of the Shichiri-no-watashi crossing.<ref>''Aisai-shi megurutto'' (愛西市めぐるっと) tourism pamphlet, Aisai City, Aichi prefecture.</ref>
==Nagoya==
The ferryboat landing at the eastern, Nagoya, end of the crossing was considered the "gateway to Nagoya," and was one of the primary sites through which people and goods came into the castle-town from [[Osaka]] and [[Kyoto]] to the west or from [[Edo]] to the east. [[Nagoya han]] established a guardhouse (''funabansho'', to the west of the ''hama torii''), trading houses (''funa [[kaisho]]''), and the like near the landing, as well as small "eastern" and "western bayside mansions" (''higashi'' and ''nishi hama goten'') for the [[Owari Tokugawa clan]] lords of the domain. The two ''[[honjin]]'' of Miya-juku were a short distance away, and the streets nearby were lined with ''[[hatagoya]]'', ''[[funayado]]'', and other types of inns for travelers.<ref>Plaques on-site at Shichiri-no-watashi.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/31362860297/sizes/l/]</ref>
==Kuwana==
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
