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Magome-juku was the forty-third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was also the las ...
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Nakatsugawa Magome-juku on the Nakasendō is a city located in Gifu, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 78,930, and a population density of 120 persons per km2 in 30,788 households. The total area of the city was . Geography Nakatsugawa is in ...
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Gifu Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Gifu Prefecture has a population of 1,910,511 () and has a geographic area of . Gifu Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to the north; Ishikawa Prefecture ...
, Japan dedicated to the life and works of
Shimazaki Tōson Shimazaki (written: , or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aki Shimazaki (born 1954), Canadian writer and translator *, Japanese idol and singer *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese v ...
. The writer was born in the former
Honjin image:Ohara-juku01s3200.jpg, The ''honjin'' at Inaba Kaidō's Ōhara-shuku. is the Japanese word for an inn for government officials, generally located in post stations (''shukuba'') during the later part of the Edo period. Evolution of ''Honjin ...
in 1872, but his birthplace and childhood home was mostly destroyed in the conflagration of 1895. Rebuilt to designs by
Taniguchi Yoshirō Taniguchi (written: lit. "valley mouth") is the 92nd most common Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese Nordic combined skier * Brian Taniguchi (born 1951), American politician *, Japanese anime director *, Japanes ...
in 1947, the museum opened in 1952. The core of the collection comprises some 5,000 items donated by Shimazaki Tōson's eldest son.


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List of Historic Sites of Japan (Gifu) This list is of the Monuments of Japan, Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefectures of Japan, Prefecture of Gifu Prefecture, Gifu. National Historic Sites As of 27 January 2025, thirty-two Sites have been Cultural Properties of Japan, ...
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Kiso Valley The is a geographical area that centers on the valley of the upper portions of the Kiso River in the southwestern part of Nagano Prefecture in Japan. It is a v-shaped valley with length of approximately 60 km (36 mi) that follows the ...
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Nakasendō The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the centrally administered Edo Five Routes, five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the ''de facto'' ...
* '' Before the Dawn''


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