Ishibe-juku
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History
Ishibe-juku was originally formed in 1571, when Oda Nobunaga formed the town of Ishibe (石部町 Ishibe-machi) by joining the five nearby hamlets. In 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi further developed the post station to be used for the shipment of goods by travelers on their way to Zenkō-ji In Shinano Province. In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Tōkaidō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1601, Ishibe-juku became an official post station. It was on the sankin-kōtai route by many western daimyō to-and-from the Shogun's court in Edo. Ishibe-juku was a popular as the first night's stop for travelers en route from Kyoto to Edo. It is 457.5 kilometers from Edo and 38 kilometers from Kyoto.
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In 1864, Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, stayed at Ishibe-juku, though his visit was preceded in 1863 by Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who later became the fifteenth and final shōgun of Japan. Both stayed at the Kojima-honjin.
Modern Ishiba-juku
Modern Ishibe-juku is poorly-preserved, as most of its buildings have been lost to modern redevelopment. The Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is an open-air museum with a number of preserved and reconstructed farmhouses, tea houses and shops. It is connected with the Script error: No such module "Nihongo". operated by Konan City. Both facilities are located a couple of kilometers from the site of the original Ishiba-juku.
Ishibe-juku in The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e Hōeidō edition print of Ishibe-juku dates from 1833–1834. The print does not actually show the post station at all, but instead shows a tea house called "Ise-ya", located at "Megawa no Sato", which was on the highway between Kusatsu-juku and Ishiba-juku, but actually closer to Kusatsu-juku. This shop was famous for its tokoroten, a gelatinous sweet made from agar, and kuromitsu, a black sugar syrup. A group of travelers are dancing and cavorting in front of the shop while three women with traveling hats and walking sticks look on in amusement. A couple of other travelers, heavily laden, are some distance further down the road.
Neighboring post towns
- Tōkaidō
- Minakuchi-juku – Ishibe-juku – Kusatsu-juku
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- Stations of the Tōkaidō
- Stations of the Tōkaidō in Shiga Prefecture
- Ōmi Province
- Konan, Shiga