Japan UKIYOE Utagawa Hiroshige Woodblock The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō For Sale

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item: JAPANESE Woodblock Print HIROSHIGE UTAGAWAtitle: \"The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō\" Three set! ! 25th station: Nissaka & 37th station: Fujikawa& 41st station: Miya
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Draft design HIROSHIGE UTAGAWA 1833-1834
Printing time 　1995-2000 when printing
condition: It is a beautiful state, but please look at the pictures
size: (One size) 30cm × 21cm 3sheets
25th station: Nissaka Nissaka-shuku was located at the western entrance to Sayo no Nakayama (小夜の中山?), regarded as one of the three difficult mountain passes along the Tōkaidō. At the western entrance of Nissaka-shuku is Kotonomama Hachimangū Shrine (事任八幡宮 Kotonomama Hachimangū?).Originally, various characters were used for Nissaka, including 入坂, 西坂 and 新坂, as it had been nothing more than a small town located between Kanaya-juku on the banks of the Ōi River and Kakegawa-juku, a castle town that was an intersection along an old salt trading route. When Nissaka-shuku was established as part of the Tōkaidō at the start of the Edo period, the characters for its name officially became 日坂.The classic ukiyoe print by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido edition) from 1831-1834 depicts travellers on a steep road in forofferding dark mountains contemplating a large boulder in the road. The stone was a noted landmark on Tōkaidō called the \"Night weeping stone\". According to legend, the bandits attacked and murdered a pregnant woman on this spot. After she died, a passing priest heard the stone call out for him to rescue the surviving infant.The Tōkaidō Main Line railroad, established during the Meiji period, was built to avoid the difficult pass and, as a result, the fortunes of Nissaka-shuku began to fall. It began to prosper again when Route 1 was rebuilt after World War II, with the new route running through Nissaka.
37th station: FujikawaFujikawa-shuku (藤川宿 Fujikawa-shuku?) was the thirty-seventh of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Okazaki, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was approximately 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Akasaka-juku, the preceding post station.[1] Another accepted reading for this post town is \"Fujikawa-juku.\"At its peak, Fujikawa-juku was home to 302 buildings, including one honjin, one sub-honjin and 36 hatago. Its total population was approximately 1,200 people.The classic ukiyoe print by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts a daimyō procession on sankin-kōtai entering the post station, which would have been a common occurrence. Three commoners are shown as kneeling as the lord\'s retinue passes. [2] The Okazaki city government has been working actively on preserving this old post town as a tourist destination. In addition to creating the Fujikawa-shuku Archives Museum within the preserved waki-honjin, detailing the history of the post town, the city has preserved a number of old structures such old street lights, and traditional houses with lattice windows. A line of old pine trees extending for approximately a kilometer marks the location of the Tōkaidō road.41st station: MiyaIn addition to being a post station on the Tōkaidō, Miya-juku was also part of the Minoji (a minor route which runs to Tarui-juku on the Nakasendō) and the Saya Kaidō. As a result, it had the most hatago of any post station along the Tōkaidō, with two honjin, one wakihonjin and 248 lesser inns.The classic ukiyoe print by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts two gangs of men dragging a portable shrine cart (not shown) past a huge torii gate. The torii gate is the symbol of a Shinto shrine, and the name of \"Miya\" also means a \"Shinto shrine\". The shrine in question is the famous Atsuta Shrine, one of the most famous in Japan and a popular pilgrimage destination in the Edo period. [2] The area is now part of downtown Nagoya metropolis.
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