Nineteenth of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō in Japan
For the post station on the Kōshū Kaidō with the same name, see
Kōshū Kaidō .
Fuchū-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Fuchū-juku (府中宿 , Fuchū-juku ) 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-juku was also a castle town for Sunpu Castle in the former Suruga Province .[ 1]
Sunpu Castle
The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts travellers crossing the Abe River to the west of the post station. A woman is being carried in a kago , while other people are fording the stream on foot.
Neighboring post towns
Tōkaidō
Ejiri-juku - Fuchū-juku - 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
Media related to Fuchu-juku at Wikimedia Commons