Chiryū-juku
Chiryū-juku (
History
[edit]Chiryū-juku was noted for a famed Shinto shrine, the Chiryū Daimyōjin, and also for its flourishing horse market, held in late April to early May of each year. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered that the post station plant pine trees along through route of the highway before and after the town. The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts horses, and also one of the pine trees. Hiroshige entitled the work Summer Horse Market (
Neighboring post towns
[edit]- Tōkaidō
- Okazaki-shuku - Chiryū-juku - Narumi-juku
Further reading
[edit]- Carey, Patrick. Rediscovering the Old Tokaido:In the Footsteps of Hiroshige. Global Books UK (2000). ISBN 1-901903-10-9
- Chiba, Reiko. Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry. Tuttle. (1982) ISBN 0-8048-0246-7
- Taganau, Jilly. The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan. RoutledgeCurzon (2004). ISBN 0-415-31091-1
References
[edit]Media related to Chiryū-juku at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ "Hiroshige - Tokaido Hoeido". Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2011-08-10.