Fuchū-shuku

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

34°58′19″N 138°23′10″E / 34.97194°N 138.38611°E / 34.97194; 138.38611Fuchū-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

  1. ^ Fuchū-juku to Mariko-juku. Tōkaidō Hitoritabi. Accessed December 7, 2007.