参勤交代の道「宮津街道」

参勤交代の道「宮津街道」　Ancient Miyazu 'Sankinkotai' Road

Sankin-kotai (alternate attendance) was a system during the Tokugawa shogunate of the Edo Period (1603-1868) where the roughly 200 daimyo (warlords) of Japan were required to typically spend alternate years in Edo (today's Tokyo) and their domain. The idea of this was to financially strain them making them unable to wage war. The daimyo built roads for the frequent travel. These major roads were called 'kaido'. Recently, I walked a section of Miyazu Kaido. It is paved with rocks, which is called 'ishi-tatami' (cobble paved). A large section of this stone pavement remains to this day.
先日、岩戸から普甲峠を越えたところまで参勤交代の道「宮津街道」を歩きました。この部分に石畳がまだ残っています。

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宮津街道説明板から千年杉を通るところまで歩きました。

ここまでマウンテンバイクで来て、この入口から歩きました。 I rode my mountain bike to here and walked from this entrance.

Fuko Pass Stone Paved Road (Translation of the information board above)
Please look at the sketch map below. The part called 'Fuko Pass Stone Paved Road' (普甲峠石畳道) is an early modern period (from the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600) to the end of the Edo period(1603-1868))  road that runs from Gando (岩戸) to Fuko Pass (普甲峠), crosses the prefectural road (府道) and runs southwest, crosses the prefectural road again and then reaches 'Naka-no-Chaya' (中ノ茶屋). To this day, the stone pavement remains in places.
In times gone by,  this road was invariably used for the so called 'reverse order route' for the 33 Kinki Kannon temple pilgrimage. Now it's a bit rough, but It is said that it still had grass on both sides up until the postwar days and was used as a horse trail.
​To begin with, out of strategic necessity Takahiro Kyogoku, a warlord of the Miyazu domain at the beginning of the early modern ages, relocated the Kyoto road to here and in those days it was called Ima-Fuko Road (Current Fuko Road). Before that, the route from Kanayama through Chaya-ga-naru was used. That road was called Moto-Fuko Road (Former Fuko Road) after Ima-Fuko Road was completed. This road was also still traversable postwar. 

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上記の説明板に「今」の漢字の「ラ」が「テ」になっている漢字があります。これは私の辞書に載っていませんが、その漢字の説明がここにあります。

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入ったところ　Just after entering the track.

石畳　stone paved road

宮津市と宮湾 Miyazu City & Miyazu Bay

石畳　Stone paved road

The old site of a tea-house (rest house)

この季節が大好き I love this season

ミツマタの花　Paper bush flowers

ベニヒラタムシ 　flat bark beetle

階段を上って、大江山スキー場に出る。　Climb the stairs and you come out at Oe-yama Ski Field.

ここでは府道を渡って標識を見るまでゲレンデの左側を上る。　Here you cross the Prefectural road and climb the ski field always keeping left along the tree line until you come to the sign.

新兵衛屋敷跡 Site of Shinbei's residence.

この辺が歩きやすい。 It's easy walking in this part.

絶景ポイント(ここから雲海が見えます)　A nice view. ( You can see the mountain peaks sticking up above a sea of mist from this location)　　　

最初はこの橋が怖いと思ったが、丈夫でした。 Wasn't sure about this bridge to start with, but it was sturdy.

Uriwari water (literal meaning: split melon water)

胸壁跡　Battlement site

関所跡　checkpoint site

ずっと石畳の上にマウンテンバイクを押しました。マウンテンバイクで帰るからしかたがありません。 I pushed my mountain bike along the stone pavement the whole way. Can't be helped since I need my bike to ride back home.

Millenary Waterfall

Millenary cedar tree

Base of the millenary cedar tree.

はい、これは石畳の道です。 Yes, this is the paved road.

しんどいし雨が降りそうなので、今回はここまでです。 I'm tired and it looks like it's going to rain, so this is as far as I'm going this time.

面白かった。
色々勉強になりました。
昔の人の暮らしを想像しました。
That was intersting.
I learnt a lot.
I imagined the life of people centuries ago.