The castle town of Yoshida was established in 1601 as a post station. In this print laborers repair Yoshida Castle in the right foreground with the famous bridge at Yoshida spanning the river on the left. The Yoshida Bridge, which crossed the Toyokawa River, was one of the few bridges permitted on the Tokaido by the Tokugawa shogunate.
Yoshida was one of the larger post stations, stretching approximately two miles along the highway. The town as a whole had approximately 1,000 buildings and had a population of 5,000 to 7,000 people.
