橋大条三
SANJIO
As Sanjio, third bridge across Kamogawa, is the most convenient situation to limit and count the distance to all directions; and as it is the habit that a citizen will tell you with this bridge when you ask him how many Chios it is from Kiyoto to Otsu or Fushimi &c, so I will mention the distance from this bridge to all places.
The bridge was broken down by floods many times before Hideyoshi built it whit a great effort about the year 1600 after the christian era.
First he raised the banks of the river Kamogawa so strong that the embank ment remains still without ever being broken.
Secondly he built the bridges, Sanjio Shijio and Gojio and paved the river bed underneath bridges with large stones so that they can not break so easily as before.
