Mochizuki-shuku

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

Mochizuki-shuku (望月宿 Mochizuki-shuku) was the twenty-fifth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Saku, in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

History

Located at the base of Mount Tateshina, Mochizuki has long been known for its horses. The area received its name, which roughly means "desirable moon," because it used to give horses to the Imperial Court and the shogunate on the day of the full moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, according to the old calendar.^[1]

Mimakigahara was located to the northeast of the post town. During the Heian and Kamakura periods of Japan, Mimakigahara was an imperial pasture.^[2]

Neighboring Post Towns

Nakasendō: Yawata-shuku - Mochizuki-shuku - Ashida-shuku; (Motai-shuku was an ai no shuku located between Mochizuki-shuku and Ashida-shuku.)

References

↑ Shinshū no Kaidō Tabō, Nakasendō. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kantō Region. Accessed July 3, 2007.
↑ Hiroshige - Kisokaido. www.hiroshige.org.uk. Accessed October 24, 2007.

v t e Stations of the Nakasendō

Musashi	Nihonbashi Itabashi Warabi Urawa Ōmiya Ageo Okegawa Kōnosu Fukiage (ai no shuku) Kumagai Fukaya Honjō

Kōzuke	Shinmachi Kuragano (intersects with Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō) Takasaki Itahana Annaka Matsuida Sakamoto

Shinano	Karuisawa Kutsukake Oiwake Otai Iwamurada Shionada Yawata Mochizuki Motai (ai no shuku) Ashida Nagakubo Wada Shimosuwa (intersects with Kōshū Kaidō) Shiojiri (intersects with Shio no Michi) Seba Motoyama Niekawa Narai Yabuhara Miyanokoshi Fukushima Agematsu Suhara Nojiri Midono Tsumago

Mino	Magome Ochiai Nakatsugawa Ōi Ōkute Hosokute Mitake Fushimi Ōta Unuma Shinkanō (ai no shuku) Kanō Gōdo Mieji Akasaka Tarui Sekigahara Imasu

Ōmi	Kashiwabara Samegai Banba Toriimoto Takamiya Echigawa Musa Moriyama (merges with Tōkaidō to Sanjō Ōhashi) Kusatsu Ōtsu

Yamashiro	Sanjō Ōhashi

Coordinates: 36°15′57″N 138°21′44″E / 36.2658°N 138.3622°E / 36.2658; 138.3622

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