Fuchū-shuku
For the post station on the Kōshū Kaidō with the same name, see Kōshū Kaidō.
Fuchū-shuku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Fuchū-shuku (府中宿 Fuchū-shuku) was the nineteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Aoi-ku area of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
History
The post station of Fuchū-shuku was also a castle town for Sunpu Castle in the former Suruga Province.[1]
Sunpu Castle
The classic ukiyoe print by Ando Hiroshige (Hoeido edition) from 1831-1834 depicts travellers crossing the Abe River to the west of the post station. A woman is bring carried in a kago, while other people are fording the stream on foot.
Neighboring post towns
- Tōkaidō
- Ejiri-juku - Fuchū-shuku - Mariko-juku
Further reading
- 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
- ↑ Fuchū-shuku to Mariko-juku. Tōkaidō Hitoritabi. Accessed December 7, 2007.
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