Yokooji

Japanese: 横大路 - よこおおじ

An old road that runs east-west through the Yamato Basin. It is a straight road that runs almost due east-west from Konishi Bridge, which spans Terakawa River in Niodo, Sakurai City, to the vicinity of Nagao Shrine in Taima Town, Kitakatsuragi County (approximately 12.7 km). For this reason, Yokooji, like Shimo-michi, which runs north-south through the Yamato Basin, was the reference line for the implementation of the jori system, and its width is not included in the jori system (the 1 cho adjacent to Yokooji on the south is much wider than the average 109m for 1 cho in the Yamato Plain). Taking Higashijo-ri, the road east of Shimo-michi, as an example, Yokooji runs between the tsubo-nai of 24 jo, 2, 11, 14, 23, 26, and 35, and the tsubo-nai of 3, 10, 15, 22, 27, and 34.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

大和盆地を東西に走る古道。桜井市仁王堂の寺川に架かる小西橋から，北葛城郡当麻町の長尾神社付近に至るまで(約12.7km)，ほぼ真東西に走る直線古道である。そのため，横大路は，大和盆地を南北に縦走する下ッ道と同様，条里施行に際しての基準線となっており，その路幅が条里に含まれない(横大路に南接する1町は，大和平野の1町の平均値109mより，かなり広くなっている)。下ッ道から東の路東条里を例にとると，横大路は24条の2,11,14,23,26,35の坪並みと，3,10,15,22,27,34の坪並みの間を走っている。

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