Miya-juku
{{short description|Forty-first of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō}}
File:Tokaido41 Miya.jpg in the Hōeidō edition of The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831–1834)]]
{{nihongo|Miya-juku|宮宿|Miya-juku}} was the forty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in former Owari Province in what is now part of the Atsuta-ku section of the city of Nagoya, in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was six km from Narumi-juku, the preceding post station.[http://www.tokaido.co.jp/lab/wada/tour22.htm Tokaido 53: Miya-juku (Nagoya)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015191155/http://tokaido.co.jp/lab/wada/tour22.htm |date=2007-10-15 }}. {{in lang|ja}} Tōkaidō no Tabi. Accessed March 7, 2008.
History
In 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 ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō 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. {{Cite web |url=http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/tokaido_hoeido_05.htm |title=Hiroshige - Tokaido Hoeido |access-date=2012-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216170131/http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/tokaido_hoeido_05.htm |archive-date=2011-12-16 |url-status=dead }} The area is now part of downtown Nagoya metropolis.
Neighboring post towns
;Tōkaidō
:Narumi-juku - Miya-juku - Kuwana-juku
;Saya Kaidō
:Miya-juku (starting location) - Iwazuka-juku
:Miya-juku (starting location) - Nagoya-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}}
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