東海道 岡崎
Okazaki on the Tokaido
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This nishiki-e (multicolored woodblock print) shows Okazaki, in Aichi Prefecture. Published in 1863 (Bunkyu 3) by Fukuchu, it is one sheet from a series (soroimono) made to coincide with Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi's trip to Kyoto, in which many artists each drew different places along the Tokaido. The artist, Seisei Kyosai, is the painter later known as Kawanabe Kyosai.
Okazaki was the castle town of Okazaki Castle, where Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in 1542, and one of the largest post stations on the Tokaido. The road through town turned again and again, so it was called the "Twenty-seven Bends" (Nijushichi Magari). To the west, the Yahagi River was crossed by the Yahagi Bridge, said in the Edo period to be the longest bridge on the Tokaido.
The castle keep was reconstructed in 1959, closely following its old exterior. The castle site is now Okazaki Park, where stone walls of natural, uncut stone remain. Markers and stone lanterns still stand along the route of the Twenty-seven Bends, too.
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- 『東海道 岡崎』（文久3年）
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- National Diet Library, Japan
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