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was the second of the
fifty-three stations of the
Tōkaidō. It is located in
Kawasaki-ku in the present-day city of
Kawasaki,
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
,
Japan
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History
Kawasaki-juku was established as a
post station in 1623, by the local magistrate
Hasegawa Nagatsuna
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People
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* Akiko Hasegawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
* Ariajasuru Hasegawa (born 1988), Japanese-Iranian footballer
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[Tōkaidō Kawasaki-juku Meguri](_blank)
. Kawasaki City Hall. Accessed December 10, 2007. It was the last post station to be built along the Tōkaidō. It was located near
Heiken-ji
is the popular name of , a Buddhist temple in Kawasaki, Japan. Founded in 1128, it is the headquarters of the Chizan sect of Shingon Buddhism. Kawasaki Daishi is a popular temple for ''hatsumōde'' (the first visit to a place of worship in t ...
, a famous
Buddhist temple
A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya, stupa, wat and pagoda in different regions and languages. Temples in Buddhism represen ...
, so it was often used by travelers coming to pray.
The classic
ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surfac ...
print by
Andō Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige (, also ; ja, 歌川 広重 ), born Andō Tokutarō (; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ''ukiyo-e'' artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format l ...
(Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts travelers in a ferry-boat crossing the
Tama River
The is a major river in Yamanashi, Kanagawa and Tokyo Prefectures on Honshū, Japan. It is officially classified as a Class 1 river by the Japanese government. Its total length is , and the total of the river's basin area spans .
The river ...
, and passengers waiting on the further bank.
Mount Fuji
, or Fugaku, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, with a summit elevation of . It is the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia (after Mount Kerinci on the island of Sumatra), and seventh-highest p ...
is depicted in the far distance.
Neighboring post towns
;Tōkaidō
:
Shinagawa-juku
was the one of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō (road), Tōkaidō.[Tōkaidō Shinag ...](_blank)
- Kawasaki-juku -
Kanagawa-juku
was the third of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It was located in Kanagawa-ku in the present-day city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was close to Kanagawa Port. Many of its historical artifacts were destroyed by the Gre ...
References
*Carey, Patrick. ''Rediscovering the Old Tokaido:In the Footsteps of Hiroshige''. Global Books UK (2000).
*Chiba, Reiko. ''Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry''. Tuttle. (1982)
*Taganau, Jilly. ''The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan''. RoutledgeCurzon (2004).
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Stations of the Tōkaidō
Stations of the Tōkaidō in Kanagawa Prefecture