Edo Mushuk

…Uesugi Kagekatsu, considering the importance of the port town, ruled it as a direct territory and ordered the transport of military rice. In the early modern period, the shogunate established a magistrate's office in Izumozaki and designated it as the port for landing gold and silver for the Sado transport, and Izumozaki took over the main role on the Echigo-Satsuma route, but in the late early modern period, Edo-style wanderers who passed through Mikuni-dori, one of the three routes of the Satsuma-Satsuma region, were sent from Teradomari to Sado. In addition, as the depth of the waters at Niigata Port became shallower, the number of ships calling from various provinces increased, and as the gateway to Echigo, rice was exported and salt, seafood, iron, etc. were imported. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Edo Mujuku" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…上杉景勝は港町の重要性にかんがみ直轄領として支配し，兵糧米の運送を命じた。近世になり幕府が出雲崎に代官所を置き，佐渡運上金銀揚陸港と定めてから越佐航路の主役は出雲崎に譲ったが，近世後期には佐州三路の一つ三国通りを経た江戸無宿が寺泊から佐渡に送られた。また新潟港の水深が浅くなったため諸国廻船の寄港が増加し，中越後の玄関として米穀を移出し，塩，海産物，鉄などを移入した。…

※「江戸無宿」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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