shio no michi salt roads

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shio no michi 塩の道 the salt roads of Japan

There are various "Salt Roads" in Japan.

The main "Salt Road" was used for transportation of salt from Nihonkai 日本海 to 松本 Matsumoto in Nagano.
Also known as
Chikuni Kaido (Chikoku Kaido) 千国街道
or
Matsumoto Kaido 松本街道

The road from the Pacific Ocean, starting in Aichi, was called
Sanshuu Kaidoo 三州街道 Sanshu Kaido, Kaido of three provinces

. Akiba Kaido 秋葉街道 Akiba Highway .
"Southern Salt" 南塩 from 相良 Sagara (in Enshu, now Shizuoka) was transported to 諏訪湖 Lake Suwako and Nagano.

The Salt Road Chikuni Kaido is 120 km long and connected the Sea of Japan at Itoigawa 糸魚川 in Niigata (Echigo) with Matsumoto, via Otari, Hakuba and Omachi.
Tobacco, soybeans and hemp linnen was also transported to the coast and salt, seafood and cotton was carried back to Matsumoto. Along this road there are many stone statues of Buddha to pray for road safety.
The warlord Uesugi Kenshin used this road to have salt transported to his arch enemy, Takeda Shingen in the 16th century, when his enemies had cut off the salt supplies to Shingen. Kenshin wrote to his enemy
"I fight with you with bow and arrow, not with rice and salt"!

The passage over Mount Hakuba was especially dangerous in these times.
The Itoigawa region was also famous for its jade products (hisui 翡翠).

Also called
Matsumoto Kaido 松本街道 Matsumoto Highway
or
"Chikuni Kaido" 千国街道(ちくにかいどう)
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. Kaido 街道と伝説 Legends about the old Kaido highways .

Once a man took a shortcut early in the morning, while it was still dark. when suddenly something black jumped up from his feet. From that moment on he lost his way. He sat down, tried to calm himself and then opened his eyes again. Oh wonder, he was sitting right beside the Matsumoto Highway.
A fox had come to help him, he was sure.
. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Kuda-kitsune, kudagitsune クダ狐 or Kanko 管狐, "pipe fox"

About 160 years ago, a traveler on the Sanshu Kaido heard stories about a クダ Kuda fox which bewitched people and troubled the villagers quite a lot.

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Shio no Michi (塩の道 Salt Road)
was an old kaidō, or road, in ancient Japan and was used to transport salt from the ocean to the inland central Honshū. In the Middle Ages, salt was brought both from the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean to Shinano Province for processing. The road leading
from the Sea of Japan to Shinano Province was called the Chikuni Kaidō (千国街道),
whereas the road leading from the Pacific Ocean was called the Sanshū Kaidō (三州街道).
- - - - - Stations of the Chikuni Kaidō
On the Echigo Province side of the route, it was called the 糸魚川街道 Itoigawa Kaidō, but on the Shinano Province side, it was called Chikuni Kaidō. The Sawado-juku and Sano-juku pair and the Ida-juku and Imori-juku pair each essentially functioned as one post station.

Itoigawa Salt Road Festival 糸魚川・塩の道起点まつり

- - Niigata Prefecture
01. Itoigawa-juku (糸魚川宿) (Itoigawa)
02. Yamaguchi-juku (山口宿) (Itoigawa)
- - Nagano Prefecture
03. Ōami-juku (大網宿) (Otari)
04. Kuruma-juku (来馬宿) (Otari)
05. Chikuni-juku (千国宿) (Otari)
06. Shiojima Shinden-juku (塩島新田宿) (Hakuba)
07. Iida-juku (飯田宿) and Iimori-juku (飯森宿) (Hakuba)
08. Sawado-juku (沢度宿) and Sano-juku (佐野宿) (Hakuba)
09. Uminokuchi-juku (海ノ口宿) (Ōmachi)
10. Ōmachi-juku (大町宿) (Ōmachi)
11. Ikeda-juku (池田宿) (Ikeda)
12. Hotaka-juku (保高宿) (Azumino)
13. Nariai Shinden-juku (成相新田宿) (Azumino)
14. Matsumoto-juku (松本宿) (Matsumoto)

- - - - - Stations of the Sanshū Kaidō
The salt was initially carried from Mikawa Bay by boats traveling up the Yahagi River and its tributary, the Tomoe River. From Toyota, it was carried by horse, marking the start of the Sanshū Kaidō.
- - Aichi Prefecture
01. Okazaki-shuku (岡崎宿) (Okazaki) (also part of the Tōkaidō)
02. Kugyūdaira-juku (九久平宿) (Toyota)
03. Asuke-juku (足助宿) (Toyota) (Asuke Kaido 足助街道)
04. Busetsu-juku (武節宿) (Toyota)
- - Nagano Prefecture
05. Neba-juku (根羽宿) (Neba)
06. Hiraya-juku (平谷宿) (Hiraya)
07. Namiai-juku (浪合宿) (Namiai)
08. Komaba-juku (駒場宿) (Achi)
09. Iida-juku (飯田宿) (Iida)
10. Ichida-juku (市田宿) (Takamori)
11. Ōjima-juku (大島宿) (Matsukawa)
12. Katabora-juku (片桐宿) (Matsukawa)
13. Iijima-juku (飯島宿) (Iijima)
14. Akazu Uwabu-juku (赤須上穂宿) (Komagane)
15. Miyada-juku (宮田宿) (Miyada)
16. Inabe-juku (伊那部宿) (Ina)
17. Matsujima-juku (松島宿) (Minowa)
18. Miyagi-juku (宮木宿) (Tatsuno)
19. Ono-juku (小野宿) (Shiojiri)
20. Shiojiri-shuku (塩尻宿) (Shiojiri) (also part of the Nakasendō)
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Shio no michi Chojiya 塩の道ちょうじや Salt Road Museum
長野県大町市八日町 2572番地

The museum is open from May to October from 9:00 - 17:00 and from November to April during 9:00 - 16:00.
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宮本常一 Miyamoto Tsuneichi (1907 - 1981)

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Edo - 家康の「塩の道」The Salt Road of Tokugawa Ieyasu

. The Gyotoku Salt Fields 行徳塩田 Gyotoku enden .
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The city of Edo needed salt from Gyotoku, which is the only town in the area suited for salt production. Therefore, in around 1602 Ieyasu ordered his men to begin building canals through the marshlands to connect all of the major river systems in the eastern Kanto region. The network of canals and rivers now extends across a wide area to the north and east of Edo.
One main canal, known as the 小名木川 Onagigawa (Onagi river),

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家康の「塩の道」

中川口 Nakagawa-guchi
歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige
- source : hiroshi on facebook

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江戸時代の運河、小名木川
中川から江戸川までは新川を掘り、道三掘、小名木川、新川経由で行徳に至る、塩の道が完成しました。
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. Shinkawa 新川 Shinkawa "new river" .

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Iwate 岩手県

. Noda Kaido 野田街道 Noda Kaido .
shio no michi 塩の道 Salt road to transport the salt made in 塩釜 Shiogama via Noda to Morioka.
and
Shiogama Kaido 塩釜街道 Shiogama Highway to Sendai.

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Shiga 滋賀県

. Shiotsu Kaido 塩津街道 Shiotsu Highway .

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Tosa shio no michi 土佐塩の道 the salt road of Tosa

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The road is more than 400 years old and was used to transport salt from the sea near 海辺の町赤岡 Akaoka to the hamlets deep in the mountains.
A short trail is about 30 km, a longer trail about 60 km.

香南市観光協会 / 塩の道保存会 Konan City
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一里塚過ぎ日盛の塩の道　
ichirizuka sugi himori no shio no michi

past the milestone mound
the sun is high up in the sky
of the salt road

佐々木小夜 Sasaki Sayo

. ichirizuka 一里塚 milestone mound .

Shio ... Salt 　塩 and WASHOKU

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Edo - the EDOPEDIA -

8/30/2019

shio no michi salt roads

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