Mizuhashi

Japanese: 水橋 - みずはし

A port town at the mouth of the Jōganji River in Shinkawa County, Etchu Province (Toyama Prefecture). Mizuhashi Station appears in the Engishiki, and it has long been a key crossing point on the Hokuriku Road. In the late Middle Ages, Mizuhashi followers of the Ikko sect are known to have been active there. In the Edo period, the town was divided into Higashi Mizuhashi and Nishi Mizuhashi by the Jōganji River (now the Shiroiwa River), and the 1646 (Shohō 3) tax register lists Uragata Higashi Mizuhashi and Uragata Nishi Mizuhashi. The 1656 (Meireki 2) and 1670 (Kanbun 10) village seals list both as Mizuhashiura, but the village officials were different.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

越中国(富山県)新川郡，常願寺川河口の港町。《延喜式》に水橋駅が見え，古くから渡河点として北陸道の要衝であった。中世後期には一向宗の水橋門徒の活動が知られている。江戸時代には常願寺川(現，白岩川)をはさんで東水橋と西水橋に分かれ，1646年(正保3)の高付帳には浦方東水橋，浦方西水橋とある。56年(明暦2)，70年(寛文10)の〈村御印（むらごいん）〉には合わせて水橋浦とあるが，村役人は別であった。

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