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*''Japanese'': 伏見宿 ''(Fushimi juku)''
Fushimi-juku was the 54th [[post-station]] of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway, the first on an extension linking [[Kyoto]] with [[Osaka]]. The post-town was home to some 24,000 people at its [[Edo period]] peak, and boasted over 6200 buildings, of which four were ''[[honjin]]'', two ''[[waki-honjin]]'', and 39 ''[[hatagoya]]'' inns. The chief river port near [[Kyoto]] proper, Fushimi was a major hub of trade and travel, with numerous ''[[gozabune]]'' and 10- & 30-''[[koku]]'' ships regularly coming and going, loading and unloading cargoes of rice, firewood, charcoal, and other materials. Smaller canal boats carried people and goods up the [[Takase canal]] from Fushimi into Kyoto proper. For many western ''daimyô'', as well as for [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan]] and [[Korean embassies to Edo]], Fushimi was their "gateway" to Kyoto - the final stop along a maritime and river journey before changing to travel overland into Kyoto proper, or onwards along the Tôkaidô to [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] and then to [[Edo]].
The town of Fushimi was under direct [[Tokugawa shogunate]] control for the duration of the Edo period. The shogunate formally declared the post-station established in [[1604]], and established a number of ''[[denma]] [[toiyaba]]'' (establishments overseeing the provision of porters and post-horses) there at that time.
For a number of years after the [[Meiji Restoration]], Fushimi continued to be a major hub, with steamboats taking over from earlier paddled or rope-pulled vessels. However, with the opening of the Tokaido Line train line connecting Kyoto and [[Kobe]] in [[1877]], and then the advent of the Keihan railroad in [[1910]], the curtain closed on the rivers as the chief avenues for trade and travel.
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Kyoto]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Yodo-juku]]'''
|}
</center>
{{stub}}
==References==
*Kusaba Kayoko 草葉加代子, ''Kyôkaidô to Yodogawa shûun'' 京街道と淀川舟運. Osaka: Daikoro (2019), 50-51.
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
Fushimi-juku was the 54th [[post-station]] of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]] highway, the first on an extension linking [[Kyoto]] with [[Osaka]]. The post-town was home to some 24,000 people at its [[Edo period]] peak, and boasted over 6200 buildings, of which four were ''[[honjin]]'', two ''[[waki-honjin]]'', and 39 ''[[hatagoya]]'' inns. The chief river port near [[Kyoto]] proper, Fushimi was a major hub of trade and travel, with numerous ''[[gozabune]]'' and 10- & 30-''[[koku]]'' ships regularly coming and going, loading and unloading cargoes of rice, firewood, charcoal, and other materials. Smaller canal boats carried people and goods up the [[Takase canal]] from Fushimi into Kyoto proper. For many western ''daimyô'', as well as for [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan]] and [[Korean embassies to Edo]], Fushimi was their "gateway" to Kyoto - the final stop along a maritime and river journey before changing to travel overland into Kyoto proper, or onwards along the Tôkaidô to [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] and then to [[Edo]].
The town of Fushimi was under direct [[Tokugawa shogunate]] control for the duration of the Edo period. The shogunate formally declared the post-station established in [[1604]], and established a number of ''[[denma]] [[toiyaba]]'' (establishments overseeing the provision of porters and post-horses) there at that time.
For a number of years after the [[Meiji Restoration]], Fushimi continued to be a major hub, with steamboats taking over from earlier paddled or rope-pulled vessels. However, with the opening of the Tokaido Line train line connecting Kyoto and [[Kobe]] in [[1877]], and then the advent of the Keihan railroad in [[1910]], the curtain closed on the rivers as the chief avenues for trade and travel.
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Kyoto]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Tokaido|Tôkaidô]]'''
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Yodo-juku]]'''
|}
</center>
{{stub}}
==References==
*Kusaba Kayoko 草葉加代子, ''Kyôkaidô to Yodogawa shûun'' 京街道と淀川舟運. Osaka: Daikoro (2019), 50-51.
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
