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Lit. Eastern Sea [coast] Road, fifty-three stations of the Toukaidou “ŒŠC“Ή, which is the the road and rest places that linked Kyoto and Edo from the Edo period onward. The 53 stations plus two end points are: Nihonbashi “ϊ–{‹΄ (in Edo); Shinagawa •iμ; Kawasaki μθ; Kanagawa _“ސμ; Hodogaya •Ϋ“yƒ–’J; Totsuka ŒΛ’Λ; Fujisawa “‘‘ς; Hiratsuka •½’Λ; Ooiso ‘εˆι; Odawara ¬“cŒ΄; Hakone ” ͺ; Mishima ŽO“‡; Numadu ΐ’Γ; Hara Œ΄; Yoshiwara ‹gŒ΄; Kanbara Š—Œ΄; Yui —R”δ; Okitsu ‹»’Γ; Ejiri ]K; Fuchuu •{’†; Mariko ŠΫŽq; Okabe ‰ͺ•”; Fujieda “‘Ž}; Shimada “‡“c; Kanaya ‹ΰ’J; Nissaka “ϊβ; Kakegawa Š|μ; Fukuroi ‘άˆδ; Mitsuke Œ©•t; Hamamatsu •lΌ; Maisaka •‘β; Arai V‹; Shirasuka ”’{‰κ; Futagawa “ρμ; Yoshida ‹g“c, Goyu Œδ–ϋ; Akasaka Τβ; Fujikawa “‘μ; Okazaki ‰ͺθ; Chiriu ’nŒο•©, Narumi –ΒŠC; Miya ‹{; Kuwana ŒK–Ό; Yokkaichi Žl“ϊŽs; Ishiyakushi Ξ–ςŽt; Shouno ―–μ; Kameyama ‹TŽR; Seki ŠΦ; Sakanoshita βΙ‰Ί; Tsuchiyama “yŽR; Minakuchi …Œϋ; Ishibe Ξ•”; Kusatsu ‘’Γ; Ootsu ‘ε’Γ; and Sanjou-oohashi ŽOπ‘ε‹΄ (in Kyoto). Stretching for 514 kilometres (319 miles), the highway had existed since ancient times, but after the establishment of the Tokugawa bakufu “Ώμ–‹•{ government in Edo the Toukaidou became the main artery for the flow of government, finance, and culture between Edo and western Japan. Processions of daimyou ‘ε–Ό to and from Edo were a major event in the post-towns shukueki h‰w along the road, most of which were equipped with stables, shops selling amenities for travelers, and inns of all sorts. Life along the Toukaido was described by the writer Jippensha Ikku \•ΤŽΙˆκ‹γ (1765-1831) in *HIizakurige •GŒI–Ρ, but it was the artist Utagawa Hiroshige ‰ΜμLd (also known as Andou ˆΐ“‘ Hiroshige, 1797-1858) who immortalized the road in his many series of *ukiyo-e •‚’ŠG prints depicting each of the stations, natural scenery, and life on the road (ca 1833).
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