Edo No Ryoko No Ura Jijo Daimyo Shogun Shomin Sorezore No Otanoshimi (Asahishin Sho)

[Machine Translation] I opened my travel guidebook and asked myself, "What do I need to buy? How about a package tour with a play? This was the way of the common people in the Edo period. In the mid-Edo period, during the Genroku era (1688-1704), there was a huge travel boom. Common men and women traveled to Narita, Ise, Zenkoji Temple, and the hot springs of Atami and Hakone. Samurai, court nobles, feudal lords, and shoguns were quite pitiful. This article describes the travel episodes and their backgrounds, which even modern people can understand.

「旅行ガイドブック」を開いて、心うきうきと「買い物は何を?芝居とのパッケージツアーはどう?」これは江戸時代の庶民の姿―。江戸中期、元禄年間から一大旅行ブームがわき起こった。成田へ伊勢へ善光寺へ、熱海・箱根の温泉へと庶民男女が繰り出した。武士や公家、大名、将軍は―かなり可哀そう。現代人もナットクの旅行エピソードと、その背景を解き明かす。