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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>

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>

As early as the 1690s, when [[Engelbert Kaempfer]] passed through Tsuwaji on his way to [[Edo]], he noted that Tsuwaji had as many as 150 homes.<ref>''Umimichi wo yuku: Edo jidai no Seto Naikai'' 海道をゆく－江戸時代の瀬戸内海－, Museum of Ehime History and Culture 愛媛県歴史文化博物館 (1999), 116.</ref>

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