Magome-juku ( 馬籠宿 , 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 last of eleven stations along the Kisoji , which was the precursor to a part of the Nakasendō, running through the Kiso Valley .
23-562: Magome-juku is located in a very mountainous section of the highway between Mino and Shinano Province . In places, the road was very steep and in the section between Magome-juku and the next station to the east, Tsumago-juku , travelers had to navigate an 800 meter mountain pass. The village is very old, and appears in Kamakura period records dated 1215 as part of the Tōyama Shōen , which had been awarded by Minamoto no Yoritomo to Kikuhime,
46-514: A slope between the town's low and high ends. Most were built for common people in the mid-18th century, with shops and inns for travelers along the Nakasendō. A quiet portion of the original highway has been preserved between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, which was also restored. It provides for a pleasant walk through forests and past waterfalls. Bus service is also provided between the two post towns, allowing visitors to easily start at either end of
69-411: Is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture . Shinano bordered Echigo , Etchū , Hida , Kai , Kōzuke , Mikawa , Mino , Musashi , Suruga , and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto , which became an important city of the province. The World War II -era Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was named after this old province. In 713,
92-605: Is now Shizuoka City . Records of Suruga during the Heian period are sparse, but during the Kamakura period , Suruga was under direct control of the Hōjō clan . With the development of the Kamakura shogunate came increased traffic on the Tōkaidō road connecting Kamakura with Kyoto . The province came under the control of the Imagawa clan from the early Muromachi period through much of
115-458: Is retying his straw sandal. A man is approaching from the opposite direction, but we can see only the top of his straw hat, emphasizing the steep slope of the road. Further in the distance, an oxherd is riding his ox past a waterfall, and the roofs of the post station can be seen in the valley below. In the distance, Mount Ena looms as a grey shadow. Shinano Province Shinano Province ( 信濃国 , Shinano no kuni ) or Shinshū ( 信州 )
138-529: The Engishiki classification system, Suruga was ranked as a "major country" (上国), and was governed by a Kuni no miyatsuko ; under the ritsuryō system, Suruga was classified as a "middle country" (中国). In a 680 AD cadastral reform, the districts forming Izu Province were administratively separated from Suruga, and the provincial capital was relocated to the right bank of the Abe River in what
161-632: The Azuchi–Momoyama period , after Nobunaga's assassination at Honnō-ji Incident , the province was contested between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Go-Hōjō clan based in Odawara castle . The Tokugawa clan , The Uesugi clan and the Hōjō clan each aspired to seize the vast area in Shinano Province , Ueno region , and Kai Province , which ruled by the remnants of the many small clans formerly serving
184-598: The Sengoku period . The Imagawa made efforts to introduce the customs and rituals of the kuge aristocracy to their capital. However, after Imagawa Yoshimoto was defeated by Oda Nobunaga at the Battle of Okehazama , the province taken by Takeda Shingen of Kai. The Takeda were in turn defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu , who was already master of Mikawa and Tōtōmi. After the Siege of Odawara (1590) , Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced
207-556: The Hōjō clan now negotiate truce with Ieyasu and The Go-Hōjō clan then sent Hōjō Ujinobu as representative, while the Tokugawa sent Ii Naomasa as representative for the preliminary meetings. Furthermore, In October, representatives from the Oda clan such as Oda Nobukatsu , Oda Nobutaka , and Toyotomi mediated the negotiation until the truce officially concluded. Suwa taisha was designated as
230-465: The Takeda clan. Following of disorder post death of Nobunaga, at the same time with Ieyasu departure an army of 8,000 soldiers to those disputed region. This caused the triangle conflict between those three factions in the event which dubbed by historians as Tenshō-Jingo War broke out. As the war turned in favor of Tokugawa clan, combined with the defection of Sanada Masayuki to the Tokugawa faction,
253-535: The Tokugawa to exchange their domains for the provinces of the Kantō region , and reassigned Sunpu Castle to one of his retainers, Nakamura Kazuichi . However, after the defeat of Ishida Mitsunari at the Battle of Sekigahara , Tokugawa Ieyasu recovered his former domains, and made Sunpu Castle his home after he formally retired from the position of Shōgun . During the Edo period , Suruga prospered due to its location on
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#1732794588322276-711: The Tōkaidō, and numerous post towns developed. For defensive purposes, the Tokugawa shogunate forbade the construction of bridges on the major rivers of Suruga Province (such as at the Ōi River ), which further led to town development on the major river crossings. During this period, the major urban center of Sunpu remained a tenryō territory, administered directly the Shōgun by the Sunpu jōdai , and several smaller feudal domains were assigned to close fudai retainers. Following
299-827: The chief Shinto shrine ( ichinomiya ) for the province. In 1871, during the Meiji period , with the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures ( Haihan Chiken ) after the Meiji Restoration , Shinano Province's ex-domains/1871 prefectures and ex-shogunate territories/1868 prefectures (mainly Ina [merger of several shogunate demesne administrations with parts of Matsumoto ], Okutono , Iwamurada , Komoro , Ueda , Matsushiro , Suzaka , Iiyama , Suwa/Takashima , Takatō , Iida , Matsumoto ) and Takayama/Hida which covered Hida Province were administratively merged into Nagano (initially Nakano Prefecture in 1870) and Chikuma prefectures . The seat of
322-551: The defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration , the last Tokugawa shōgun , Tokugawa Yoshinobu returned to Suruga in 1868 to rule the short-lived Shizuoka Domain until the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the new Meiji government . Suruga was subsequently merged with the neighboring provinces of Tōtōmi and Izu (less the Izu Islands ) to form modern Shizuoka Prefecture . At
345-537: The half-sister of Minamoto no Yoshinaka who lived in this location. In records dated 1487, it was referred to as "Kiso Magome" or "Ena-gun Magome", although Magoma was in Mino, and not in the Kiso River valley. In the early Edo period , the system of post stations on the Nakasendō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1602, and it became a stopping place for traveling merchants ( Ōmi shōnin ( 近江商人 ) ) and it
368-404: The main parking lot at Magome's upper end. Utagawa Hiroshige 's ukiyo-e print of Magome-juku dates from 1835 -1838. The print depicts the pass between Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, with a narrow road wedged between the side of a mountain and a steep cliff. A man is followed by two Kago (palanquin) bearers, one of whom is carrying the empty kago by one pole on his shoulder while the other
391-468: The modern period, with the completion of the Chūō Main Line railway, it fell into obscurity and poverty; and many of its old buildings were destroyed by fires in 1895 and 1915. In recent decades, it has been restored to its appearance as an Edo period post town and is now a popular tourist destination. The central feature of Magome is its restored row of houses along the former post road, which runs at
414-510: The path. Magome was the birthplace and childhood home of noted author Shimazaki Tōson , who wrote about the Kiso region in his most famous novel, Before the Dawn , between 1929 and 1935. He is buried in the town's small cemetery. The town also offers a fine view of Mount Ena , which rises 2,190 m (7,185 ft). Panoramic views of the surrounding mountains may be enjoyed from a vista above
437-530: The prefectural government of Nakano was Nakano town from Takai District (became Nakano City in 1954), Nagano's prefectural capital was Nagano town in Minochi District (→ Nagano City in 1897), and Chikuma's capital was Matsumoto town, Chikuma district ( Matsumoto City from 1907). In the second wave of prefectural mergers in 1875/76, Chikuma was split again: the Western part covering Hida Province
460-494: The road that traverses Mino and Shinano provinces was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers through the Kiso District of modern Nagano Prefecture. In the Sengoku period , Shinano Province was often split among fiefs and castle towns developed, including Komoro , Ina , and Ueda . Shinano was one of the major centers of Takeda Shingen 's power during his wars with Uesugi Kenshin and others. During
483-535: Was also on the sankin-kōtai route used by various western daimyō to-and-from the Shogun's court in Edo . Per the 1843 "中山道宿村大概帳" ( Nakasendō Shukuson Taigaichō ) guidebook issued by the Inspector of Highways ( 道中奉行 , Dōchu-būgyō ) , the town had a population of 717 people in 69 houses, including one honjin , one waki-honjin, and 18 hatago . The post station was 326.7 kilometers from Edo. In
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#1732794588322506-678: Was bordered by the Pacific Ocean through Suruga Bay to the south. Its abbreviated form name was Sunshū ( 駿州 ) . Suruga was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code . The original capital of the province was located in what is now Numazu , which also had the Kokubun-ji and the Ichinomiya ( Mishima Taisha ) of the province. Under
529-551: Was merged into Gifu, and the Eastern part in Shinano became part of Nagano. Since that time, Nagano is essentially contiguous to Shinano. Shinano Province consisted of sixteen districts: Suruga Province Suruga Province ( 駿河国 , Suruga no kuni ) was an old province in the area that is today the central part of Shizuoka Prefecture . Suruga bordered on Izu , Kai , Sagami , Shinano , and Tōtōmi provinces; and
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