Kanbara-juku
Sign in to savethumb|Kanbara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in the Hōeidō edition of [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831–1834)]] was the fifteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Shimizu-ku ward of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of four former post stations located in Shimizu-ku. The painting is mostly famous for being used for Weezer's 1996 album Pinkerton, which uses the painting for the album cover.
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Shimizu-ku
- Followed by
- Yui-shuku
- Follows
- Yoshiwara-juku
- Image
- GojūSanTsugi-MeishoZu'e, Kanbara by Hiroshige.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- Commons category
- Kanbara-juku
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Neighboring post towns
- Further reading
- References
thumb|Kanbara-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by Hiroshige in the Hōeidō edition of [[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1831–1834)]] was the fifteenth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now part of the Shimizu-ku ward of Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of four former post stations located in Shimizu-ku. The painting is mostly famous for being used for Weezer's 1996 album Pinkerton, which uses the painting for the album cover.
==History== The original Kanbara-juku was decimated by a flood in the early part of the Edo period, but was rebuilt shortly thereafter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kanbara-juku” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.