Hosokute-juku

Hosokute-juku (細久手宿, Hosokute-juku) was the forty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō during the Edo period and it is located in the present-day city of Mizunami, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Hiroshige's print of Hosokute-juku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
Hosokute-juku, 2008

History

Located in the Owari clan's domain, Hosokute-juku was established as a mountaintop post town in 1610. The route between the two neighboring post towns, Ōkute-juku and Mitake-juku, was long and difficult, so the town was built up as a resting point between the two places.[1] It contains the family temple of the Toki clan, Mino Province's guardian.

Neighboring Post Towns
Nakasendō
Ōkute-juku - Hosokute-juku - Mitake-juku

References
  1. Nakasendo Hosokute-juku Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Ibisoku Co., Ltd. Accessed July 11, 2007.

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