Nagasaki Hita Kaido

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Nagasaki Kaido 長崎街道 Nagasaki Highway

. Food and sweets from Nagasaki 長崎県 .
The Nagasaki Highway was also called
シュガーロード sugar road / 砂糖の道 sato no michi
connecting Nagasaki and Kokura (Ogura) 小倉 in 福岡県 Fukuoka, Kyushu.
From there on to Kyoto during the Edo period. A lot of Western cultural elements travelled this road, when even very expensive white sugar was only available at the island of Dejima.



Towns along this road were able to produce sweets with white sugar.
for example
Ogi yookan 小城羊羹
in the town of Ogi in Saga prefecture. This Yokan is still made by hand. Water, agar, anko bean paste and sugar are stirred for a long time, then poured in a wooden form with lacquer finishing. When its gets dry it is taken out of the form, head up now with a frosted sugar coating, that gives a crunchy sound when biting into it.
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- Postal stations along the Nagasaki Kaido

- - - - - Fukuoka Prefecture
Start : Tokiwabashi (常盤橋) (Kokura Kita-ku, Kitakyūshū)
1. Kurosaki-shuku (黒崎宿) (Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyūshū)
2. Koyanose-shuku (木屋瀬宿) (Yahata Nishi-ku, Kitakyūshū)
3. Iizuka-shuku (飯塚宿) (Iizuka)
4. Uchino-shuku (内野宿) (Iizuka)
5. Yamae-shuku (山家宿) (Chikushino)
6. Haruda-shuku (原田宿) (Chikushino)

- - - - - Saga Prefecture
7. Tashiro-shuku (田代宿) (Tosu)
8. Todoroki-shuku (轟木宿) (Tosu）
9. Nakabaru-shuku (中原宿) (Miyaki, Miyaki District)
10. Kanzaki-shuku (神埼宿) (Kanzaki)
11. Sakaibaru-shuku (境原宿) (Kanzaki)
12. Saga-shuku (佐賀宿) (Saga)
13. Ushizu-shuku (牛津宿) (Ogi)
14. Oda-shuku (小田宿) (Kōhoku, Kishima District)
15. Kitagata-shuku (北方宿) or Naruse-shuku (鳴瀬宿) (Takeo)
16. Tsukasaki-shuku (塚崎宿) or Shiota-shuku (塩田宿) (Takeo)
17. Ureshino-shuku (嬉野宿) (Ureshino)

- - - - - Nagasaki Prefecture
18. Sonogi-shuku (彼杵宿) (Higashisonogi, Higashisonogi District)
19. Matsubara-shuku (松原宿) (Ōmura)
20. Ōmura-shuku (大村宿) (Ōmura)
21. Eishō-shuku (永昌宿) (Isahaya)
22. Yagami-shuku (矢上宿) (Nagasaki)
23. Himi-shuku (日見宿) (Nagasaki)
End - Nagasaki　長崎
source : wikipedia



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Hizen Chikuzen Kaido 肥前・筑前街道
Crossing from 福岡県筑紫郡那珂川町 Fukuoka, Chikushi district, Nakagawa
to
佐賀県神埼郡吉野ヶ里町 Saga, Kanzaki district, Yoshinogari
via the
Sefurizaka-goe 脊振坂越 Serifuri Pass


Mount Sefuri (脊振山, Sefuri-san)
is a 1,054.6 m peak of the Sefuri Mountains, which are located on the border of Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, and Kanzaki, Saga Prefecture, Japan.
This mountain is the tallest peak of the Sefuri Mountain range between Fukuoka Prefecture and Saga Prefecture. Before the Meiji Restoration, this mountain was a center of the Shugendo religion in this region, along with Mount Hiko. Mount Sefuri is the location where the Buddhist priest Eisai first planted tea after his return to Japan from Song dynasty China in the Kamakura period.
The northern part of Kanzaki city is located in the middle of the Sefuri Mountains.
The southern part consists of the north bank of the Chikugo River and the Saga Plains, and the Jōbaru River runs through the middle portion of the city. The southeast border with Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture is formed by the Chikugo River.
source : wikipedia

Hizen Province (肥前国, Hizen no kuni)
was an old province in the area of Saga and Nagasaki prefectures,
Hizen bordered on the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo.

Chikuzen Province (筑前国, Chikuzen no kuni)
was an old provincein the area that is today part of Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyūshū.
It was sometimes called Chikushū (筑州) or Chikuyō (筑陽), with Chikugo Province. Chikuzen bordered Buzen, Bungo, Chikugo, and Hizen Provinces.


Kanzaki soomen 神埼そうめん(神崎素麺) somen noodles from Kanzaki
They are prepared with the fresh water from rivers from the mountain area of Mount Sefuri 脊振. They are quite chewy, but smooth. You can enjoy them cold in summer and hot in winter.
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Hita Kaido 日田街道 / 日田往還 Hita Okan
Oita / Fukuoka

Connecting Hita with Fukuoka



. Hita 日田市 - Bungo no Kuni Hita 豊後国日田 .
Part of the old Bungo region is now in Oita prefecture, part in Fukuoka.
In the Edo period Hita was Tenryo 天領 land under the supervision of the Tokugawa government because of the mines.
- Taio kinzan 鯛生金山 Taio Gold Mine, goldmine in Nakatsu
大分県日田市 中津江村合瀬
- Hita Gion Matsuri 日田祇園祭り　Hita Gion Festival
- Hita Tenryo Matsuri　日田天領まつり　Hita Tenryo Festival

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Fukuoka Domain (福岡藩, Fukuoka han)
It was associated with Chikuzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda family.
In the han system, Fukuoka was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West. With its rating of 473,000 koku, the domain was the fifth-largest in Japan, excluding the domains held by the Tokugawa-Matsudaira dynasty.
... The Kuroda clan
I. Kuroda Nagamasa, 1st daimyō of Fukuoka (ca. 1600)
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

. Kuroda Kanbei Yoshitaka 黒田官兵衛 孝高 . - (1546 - 1604)
and his son 長政 Nagamasa

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Fukuoka city (福岡市, Fukuoka-shi)
is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu.
- - - Exchanges from the continent and the Northern Kyushu area date as far back as Old Stone Age.
It has been thought that waves of immigrants arrived in Northern Kyushu from mainland Asia. Several Kofun burial mounds exist.
- - - History
Fukuoka was sometimes called the Port of Dazaifu (大宰府), 15 km southeast from Fukuoka. Dazaifu was an administrative capital in 663 A.D., but a historian proposed that a prehistoric capital was in the area. Ancient texts, such as the Kojiki, Kanyen (found in Dazaifu) and archaeology confirm this was a very critical place in the founding of Japan. Some scholars claim that it was the first place outsiders and the Imperial Family set foot, but like many early Japan origin theories, it remains contested. Central Fukuoka is sometimes still referred as Hakata which is the name of the central ward.
- In 923, the Hakozaki-gū
in Fukuoka was transferred from Daibu-gū in Daibu (大分), 16 km (10 mi) northeast from Dazaifu, the origin of Usa Shrine and established as a branch of the Usa Shrine at Fukuoka. In Ooho (大保), 15 km (9 mi) south from Dazaifu, there are remains of a big ward office with a temple, because in ancient East Asia, an emperor must have three great ministries (大宰, 大傳 and 大保). In fact, there is a record in Chinese literature that a king of Japan sent a letter in 478 to ask the Chinese emperor's approval for employing three ministries. In addition, remains of the Korokan (鴻臚館, Government Guest House) were found in Fukuoka underneath a part of the ruins of Fukuoka Castle.
- Mongol invasions (1274–1281)
- Formation of the modern city (1889)
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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. Kōbō Daishi Kūkai 弘法大師　空海 - 伝説　 Kobo Daishi Kukai Legends .

Once Kukai asked for some negi 葱 leek, but the farmer did not give him any.
The next day all the leek had dried and nothing would grow on the field any more.
Another time he came to a river where an old woman washed potatoes and daikon 大根 radish.
He asked her to give him some but she only gave him a dirty potato.
Soon after the water in the river did not flow any more.

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日田市 Hita city 渡里 Watari

. Oni densetsu 鬼伝説　Regional Demon Legends - Oita .
At the small hamlet of Watari there is a place where the head of an Oni demon is burried. But maybe it was just a local thief.

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. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake legends .
At a hamlet called 松原 Matsubara in Hita there appeared a huge serpent. It was very long and rather black, its face long like this of a horse with ears. A farmer painted a picture of it and then it was called kyuuryoo 虬龍 "Serpent-Dragon", a legendary animal.



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