Hosokute-juku

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Hiroshige's print of Hosokute-juku, part of the The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series

Hosokute-juku (細久手宿, Hosokute-juku^?) was the forty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō during the Edo period and it is located in the present-day city of Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

[edit] History

Located in the Owari clan's domain, Hosokute-juku was established as a mountaintop post town in 1610. The route between the two neighboring post towns, Ōkute-juku and Mitake-juku, was long and difficult, so the town was built up as a resting point between the two places.^[1] It contains the family temple of Toki, Mino Province's guardian.