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Fukaya in northern [[Musashi province]] was a [[post station]] (''shukuba'') along the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]].
It developed from a quiet agricultural [[castle town]] in the early 18th century into a bustling post-station and entertainment district by the early 19th. It went from having twenty-two inns in the mid-18th century to around eighty in the 1830s, and as [[prostitution]] became stronger in the area, the gender balance shifted from a total local population of roughly 900 men and 835 women in 1800 to around 900 men and 1000 women only forty-two years later.
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|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Kumagaya-juku]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Stations of the [[Nakasendo|Nakasendô]]'''
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Honjo-juku|Honjô-juku]]'''
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==References==
*Amy Stanley, ''Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan'', UC Press (2012), 134-162.
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]