旅籠はたご

noun

hatago; Edo-period inn; travellers' lodging

Historical term for an inn where travellers during the Edo period could stay, often with meals provided. The word is still used in historical contexts or place names.

See also: 旅籠屋

• 東とう海かい道どうには多おおくの旅籠はたごがあった。

  There were many hatago inns along the Tōkaidō road.

• 旅籠はたごに一いっ泊ぱくして、翌よく朝あさ早はやく出しゅっ発ぱつした。

  We stayed overnight at a hatago and left early the next morning.

noun

traveller's basket; food basket; fodder basket

Archaic meaning: a basket used by travellers to carry food or horse fodder. Sense 3 is the original meaning. Both are obsolete in modern Japanese.

• 古こ文もん書じょには、旅籠はたごに干ほし飯いいを入いれて運はこんだと記しるされている。

  Old documents record that dried rice was carried in a traveller's basket called hatago.