was the forty-first of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in former

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in what is now part of the Atsuta-ku section of the city of

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, in

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. It was six km from Narumi-juku, the preceding post station.Tokaido 53: Miya-juku (Nagoya)
. Tōkaidō no Tabi. Accessed March 7, 2008.

History

In addition to being a post station on the Tōkaidō, Miya-juku was also part of the Minoji (a minor route which runs to Tarui-juku on the

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'' ...

) and the Saya Kaidō. As a result, it had the most ''

hatago were Edo period lodgings for travelers at ''shukuba'' (post stations) along the national highways, including the Edo Five Routes and the subroutes. In addition to a place to rest, ''hatago'' also offered meals and other foods to the travelers. ...

'' of any post station along the Tōkaidō, with two ''

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 ...

'', one '' wakihonjin'' and 248 lesser inns. The classic

ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock printing, woodblock prints and Nikuhitsu-ga, paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes ...

print by

Andō Hiroshige or , 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 landscape series '' The Fifty-three Stations ...

(''Hōeidō'' edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts two gangs of men dragging a portable shrine cart (not shown) past a huge ''

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'' gate. The ''torii'' gate is the symbol of a

Shinto shrine A Stuart D. B. Picken, 1994. p. xxiii is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more kami, , the deities of the Shinto religion. The Also called the . is where a shrine's patron is or are enshrined.Iwanami Japanese dic ...

, and the name of "Miya" also means a "Shinto shrine". The shrine in question is the famous Atsuta Shrine, one of the most famous in Japan and a popular pilgrimage destination in the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

. The area is now part of downtown Nagoya metropolis.

Neighboring post towns

;Tōkaidō : Narumi-juku - Miya-juku - Kuwana-juku ;Saya Kaidō :Miya-juku ''(starting location)'' - Iwazuka-juku ; Minoji :Miya-juku ''(starting location)'' - Nagoya-juku

References

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History

Neighboring post towns

Further reading

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