Nagasaki Road

Japanese: 長崎路 - ながさきじ

A modern trunk road in Kyushu, also known as the Nagasaki Kaido. It is a side road that runs from Buzen Dairi through 14 post towns, including Kokura, Chikuzen Kurosaki, Hizen Tashiro, Hizen Todoroki, Kanzaki, Saga, Ushio, Oda, Isahaya, and Yagami, to Himi in the Shogunate territory, and finally to Nagasaki. It is believed to have been established after the 1610s, and after the isolationist order, it was developed and prospered as the passage of the Nagasaki magistrate, Shogunate officials, various feudal lords, domestic and foreign writers and merchants increased. Within the Saga domain, it was divided into three routes. According to the German physician Kaempfer, who stayed in Nagasaki, the road was clean, the road was covered with new sand, and it was "as good a road as one could hope for."
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Japanese:

九州における近世の幹線道で，長崎街道ともいう。豊前大里(だいり)から小倉，筑前黒崎(くろさき)，肥前田代(たしろ)，肥前轟木(とどろき)・神埼・佐賀・牛津・小田・諫早(いさはや)・矢上など14宿を経て幕府領の日見(ひみ)，長崎に至る脇街道。開設時期は1610年代以降とみられ，鎖国令ののち長崎奉行以下幕府役人や諸大名，内外の文人・商人などの通行が盛んになるに伴い，整備され賑わった。佐賀藩領内では３筋に分かれていた。長崎に滞在していたドイツの医学者ケンペルによると，沿道は清潔で，道には新しい砂が敷かれ，〈望み得る限りの良路〉であったという。
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