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mid-station along the
Nakasendō
The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. There were 6 ...
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Edo period
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post stations of
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 ar ...
and
Ashida-shuku was the twenty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tateshina, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
History
Ashida-shuku was formed in 1601, during the Edo period, when the ...
. It is located in the present-day town of
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*Saku, Nagano (Minamisaku), a town in Japan
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Nagano Prefecture
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Japan
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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 ar ...
- Motai-shuku -
Ashida-shuku was the twenty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day town of Tateshina, in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
History
Ashida-shuku was formed in 1601, during the Edo period, when the ...
References
{{coord missing, Nagano Prefecture
Stations of the Nakasendo in Nagano Prefecture
Stations of the Nakasendō