Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Magome - an old mountain post station in Japan

Thanasis at Magome - the furthest south of the Kiso Valley post towns (Gifu-ken, Japan)



Magome was the forty-third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, an ancient road that connected Kyoto and Edo (Tokyo) during the Edo period.


Keisai Eisen's print of Magome-juku, part of the The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series



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