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"Hokkaido contributed to the growth of Japan, but was it beneficial for us?" asks Nobuaki Shirai, author of the pro-independence tome "The Theory of Hok-kaido."
Rebel Rich 2007
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Utsunomiya, and by doing so lost the most magnificent of the two avenues, which extends for nearly fifty miles along the great highway called the Oshiu-kaido.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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Along the Reiheishi-kaido, the road by which I came, it extends for thirty miles, and the two, broken frequently by villages, converge upon the village of Imaichi, eight miles from Nikko, where they unite, and only terminate at the entrance of the town.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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The avenue of the Reiheishi-kaido is a good carriage road with sloping banks eight feet high, covered with grass and ferns.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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That you came from Zo [u] jo [u] ji is plain from your garb, if you had not been seen to turn into To [u] kaido [u] from the temple avenue ....
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To [u] kaido [u] in priestly robe and under the name of Dentatsu.
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Meanwhile their concern and admiration were for the lady destined to this post town of the crowded To [u] kaido [u], the stopping place of high and low, noble and riff-raff, entering Edo town.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Speed they did, by paths and shorter ways unknown to Dentatsu as frequent traveller of this road, and which spared the Hamana bight and rest at the tea sheds of the To [u] kaido [u].
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The author was the noted Tsuruya Namboku, who constructed the very famous "To [u] kaido [u] Yotsuya Kwaidan."
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Within its precincts the _yashiki_ of the great nobles were conspicuously absent; their long processions of spearman, _chu [u] gen_, _samurai_ and officials were only to be witnessed at times on the highway which leaves Shinjuku for the Ko [u] shu [u] kaido [u] and the alternate and then little used
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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