Imasu-juku
Imasu-juku | |||||
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post station | |||||
![]() Hiroshige's print of Imasu-juku, part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Sekigahara, Gifu (former Mino Province) Japan | ||||
Coordinates | 35°20′54.7″N 136°26′46″E / 35.348528°N 136.44611°E | ||||
Elevation | 162 meters | ||||
Line(s) | Nakasendō | ||||
Distance | 447 km from Edo | ||||
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Imasu-juku (
History
[edit]Imasu-juku was located on the ancient Tōsandō highway connecting the capital of Heian-kyō with the provinces of eastern Japan, and near the border of Ōmi Province with Mino Province.
In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Nakasendō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1602, and it was a stopping place for traveling merchants (Ōmi shōnin (
Per the 1843 "
Following the Meiji restoration, traffic on the Nakasendō all but disappeared; prices increased and in 1869 after a bad harvest, the peasants around Imazu rose in revolt, demanding debt cancellation and the release of stored rice to avoid famine. The station official appealed to Ōgaki Domain, which sent troops to suppress the uprising by force. This was an indication of how Imasu-juku, once quite prosperous, had declined. [4]
Imasu-juku in The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
[edit]Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e print of Imasu-juku dates from 1835 -1838. The print emphasizes the location by depicting a border post proclaiming "Mino-Ōmi border". A traveller stops to read this inscription while another gets a light for his pipe from a man seated in front of a teahouse. Above him is a sign promoting “bien Sennjoko”, a cosmetic produced by the patron who subsidized this print series. Farther down the road is a man with two barrels wrapped in straw suspended by a pole over his shoulder, and there are shops for traveller's necessities, such as straw hats and sandals. Several travellers also arriving from the other direction, indicating the busy nature of this post station. In the plains below, crops have been harvested, indicating that the setting is autumn.
Neighboring post towns
[edit]- Nakasendō
- Sekigahara-juku - Imasu-juku - Kashiwabara-juku
Notes
[edit]- ^ Imasu-juku
- ^ Nakasendo Imasu-juku Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Ibisoku Co., Ltd. Accessed July 11, 2007.
- ^ Kurihangaidō. t.keiko. Accessed July 13, 2007.
- ^ Sekigahara Guide(in Japanese)
References
[edit]- Izzard, Sebastian (2008). The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido. George Braziller. ISBN 978-0807615935.
- Berna, Cristina (2019). Hiroshige 69 Stations of the Nakasendō. Missys Clan. ISBN 978-2919787661.
- Kishimoto, Yutaka (2016).
中山道 浪漫 の旅 書 き込 み手帖 . Shinano Mainichi Shimbun. ISBN 978-4784072972. (in Japanese) - Yagi, Makio (2014). ちゃんと
歩 ける中山道 六 十 九 次 西 藪原 宿 ~京 三条 大橋 .山 と渓谷社 . ISBN 978-4635600781. (in Japanese)
External links
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