Kyoto Highway - Kyokaido

Japanese: 京街道 - きょうかいどう

A highway that connected Kyoto and Osaka in the early modern period. It was also called the Kyoto Road, the Osaka Highway, and the Kawachi Road. It began in 1594 when Toyotomi Hideyoshi built the Bunroku Levee on the left bank of the Yodo River and used the embankment road as a shortcut between Fushimi and Osaka. The Edo Shogunate further improved the road and established four post stations: Fushimi, Yodo, Hirakata, and Moriguchi. It also considered this highway to be an extension of the Tokaido and placed it under the jurisdiction of the road magistrate. Since boat transport on the Yodo River was often used to travel down from Fushimi to Osaka, most of the relays of people and horses at Hirakata and Moriguchi were for those traveling up the river. The Kii Tokugawa, Aki Asano, Tosa Yamauchi, and Awa Hachisuka families used this highway for their alternate attendance, and Ryukyu envoys also passed through this highway.
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Japanese:

近世に京都と大坂を結んだ街道。京道・大坂街道・河内路ともよばれた。1594年豊臣秀吉が淀川左岸に文禄堤を築き，堤防道を伏見・大坂間の近道としたのに始まる。江戸幕府は道をさらに整備して伏見・淀・枚方(ひらかた)・守口の４宿を設けた。また当街道を東海道の延長とみなし，道中奉行の管轄下に置いた。伏見から大坂までの下りには淀川の舟運が多く利用されたため，枚方宿・守口宿における人馬の継立はほとんどが上り便であった。紀伊徳川家・安芸浅野家・土佐山内家・阿波蜂須賀家などが参勤交代に利用し，琉球使節も当街道を通った。
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