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Akasaka juku on the old Tokaido

nedkelly

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Akasaka juku (present day Toyokawa) was the 36th station of the old Tokaido. The inns there were numerous and had excellent female entertainment. According to "the Great Road: Japan's Highway to the Twentieth Century" by Denis Warner, there is Japanese saying:
"Because of Akasaka, there is no need to journey to Edo". (Ie. because the females are so good in Akasaka).
I have been trying to find the Japanese original of this saying. Can someone help?
 
「御油に赤坂吉田がなくば 何のよしみで江戸通い」 or 「御油や赤坂、吉田がなけりゃ、なんのよしみで江戸通い」(ごゆやあかさかよしだがなけりゃ、なんのよしみでえどがよい)
This is not a saying but 都々逸(どどいつ) (7-7-7-5), a kind of popular song sung or chanted among commoners.
It is more like "if it were not for Goyu, Akasaka and Yoshida, for what reason we go (frequently) to Edo?", I think.
 
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