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*''Japanese'': 津和地島 ''(Tsuwaji shima)''
*''Japanese'': 津和地島 ''(Tsuwaji shima)''
Tsuwaji is an island in the western [[Inland Sea]]. Today administered as a part of [[Matsuyama]] City, historically too Tsuwaji was within the territory of [[Iyo-Matsuyama han]]. A major port, Tsuwaji was a frequent stop for ''daimyô'' on ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' journeys, and other
Tsuwaji is an island in the western [[Inland Sea]]. Today administered as a part of [[Matsuyama]] City, historically too Tsuwaji was within the territory of [[Iyo-Matsuyama han]]. A major port, Tsuwaji was a frequent stop for ''daimyô'' on ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' journeys, and for numerous other official and unofficial travelers.
The lord of Iyo-Matsuyama established a teahouse on the island in [[1635]] (likely a reception hall for elite guests, akin to a ''[[honjin]]''), and named retainer Yahara Sanozaemon his deputy (nashiro), to oversee such matters. The Yahara family remained influential figures on the island throughout the [[Edo period]], serving as district magistrates (''gun bugyô'') for much of the period. The ''[[Yahara-ke goyo nikki|Yahara-ke goyô nikki]]'' collects records of much of the magistrates' official matters from [[1768]] into the 1850s or 1860s.<ref>Kimura Yoshisato 木村吉聡 (ed.), ''Ryukyu shisetsu no Edo nobori to Mitarai'' 琉球使節の江戸上りと御手洗, Shiomachi kankô kôryû Center 潮待ち館観光交流センター (2001), 73-74.; ''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 113-134.</ref>
As early as the 1690s, when [[Engelbert Kaempfer]] passed through Tsuwaji on his way to [[Edo]], he noted that Tsuwaji had as many as three hundred homes.<ref>Kimura, 5.</ref>
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
