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Tōkaidō (road)

Index Tōkaidō (road)

The was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period in Japan, connecting Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo). [1]

54 relations: Ōtsu-juku, Bill Zacha, British Council, British Museum, Daimyō, Edo, Edo Five Routes, Edo period, Greater Tokyo Area, Haiku, Hiroshige, Honshu, Japan, Japan National Route 1, Japan Railways Group, Jippensha Ikku, Kago, Kōraibashi, Kusatsu-juku, Kuwana-juku, Kyoto, Matsuo Bashō, Meishin Expressway, Nagoya, Nakasendō, Namamugi Incident, Nigel Caple, Nihonbashi, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Osaka, Passport, Routledge, Sanjō Ōhashi, Screen printing, Shukuba, Spur route, Sudhana, Sunsoft, Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (video game), Tōkaidō Main Line, Tōkaidō Shinkansen, Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, Tōmei Expressway, The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, The Press Democrat, Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo, Ukiyo-e, University of Hertfordshire, ..., Woodblock printing in Japan, Yokohama, 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō, 7 Wonders (board game). Expand index (4 more) »

Ōtsu-juku

was the last of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, as well as the last of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō.

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Bill Zacha

Bill Zacha (born 1920 in Garland, Texas, died March 18, 1998 at Fort Bragg, California) was an artist and entrepreneur who founded the in Mendocino, California and by doing so started the artistic revival of Mendocino.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Daimyō

The were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

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Edo

, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo Five Routes

The, sometimes translated as "Five Highways", were the five centrally administered routes, or kaidō, that connected the capital of Japan at Edo (now Tokyo) with the outer provinces during the Edo period (1603–1868).

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Greater Tokyo Area

The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world, consisting of the Kantō region of Japan, including the Tokyo Metropolis, as well as the prefecture of Yamanashi of the neighboring Chūbu region.

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Haiku

(plural haiku) is a very short Japan poem with seventeen syllables and three verses.

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Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japan National Route 1

National Route 1 is a major highway on the island of Honshū in Japan.

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Japan Railways Group

The Japan Railways Group, more commonly known as, consists of seven for-profit companies that took over most of the assets and operations of the government-owned Japanese National Railways on April 1, 1987.

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Jippensha Ikku

was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu (重田 貞一), a Japanese writer active during the late Edo period of Japan.

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Kago

A is a type of litter used as a means of human transportation by the non-samurai class in feudal Japan and into the Meiji period.

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Kōraibashi

is a bridge located in Chūō-ku in the city of Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

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Kusatsu-juku

was the fifty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō as well as the sixty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō.

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Kuwana-juku

was the forty-second of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō.

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Kyoto

, officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, located in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Matsuo Bashō

, born 松尾 金作, then, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

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Meishin Expressway

The is a toll expressway in Japan.

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Nagoya

is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan.

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Nakasendō

The, also called the,Richard Lane, Images from the Floating World (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus; pg.

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Namamugi Incident

The (also known sometimes as the Kanagawa Incident, and as the Richardson Affair) was a samurai assault on British subjects in Japan on September 14, 1862, which occurred six days after Ernest Satow set foot on Japanese soil for the first time.

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Nigel Caple

Nigel Caple is a British artist and lecturer.

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Nihonbashi

is a business district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan which grew up around the bridge of the same name which has linked two sides of the Nihonbashi River at this site since the 17th century.

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Nintendo

Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and video game company headquartered in Kyoto.

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Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console that was developed and manufactured by Nintendo.

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Osaka

() is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan.

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Passport

A passport is a travel document, usually issued by a country's government, that certifies the identity and nationality of its holder primarily for the purpose of international travel.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Sanjō Ōhashi

is a bridge in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.

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Screen printing

Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil.

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Shukuba

were post stations during the Edo period in Japan, generally located on one of the Edo Five Routes or one of its sub-routes.

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Spur route

A spur route is a usually short road forming a branch from a longer, more important route (typically a major road, freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway).

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Sudhana

Sudhanakumâra, mainly known as Sudhana and Shancai or Shancai Tongzi in Chinese, and translated as Child of Wealth, is the protagonist in the next-to-last and longest chapter of the Avatamsaka Sutra.

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Sunsoft

, stylized as SUNSOFT, is a Japanese video game developer and publisher.

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Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi (video game)

is a side-scrolling action-adventure game developed and published by Sunsoft.

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Tōkaidō Main Line

The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations.

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Tōkaidō Shinkansen

The is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen line, opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka.

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Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige

, abbreviated as Hizakurige and known in translation as Shank's Mare, is a comic picaresque novel (kokkeibon) written by Jippensha Ikku (十返舎一九, 1765–1831) about the misadventures of two travelers on the Tōkaidō, the main road between Kyoto and Edo during the Edo period.

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Tōmei Expressway

The is a national expressway on the island of Honshū in Japan.

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The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

, in the Hōeidō edition (1833–1834), is a series of ukiyo-e woodcut prints created by Utagawa Hiroshige after his first travel along the Tōkaidō in 1832.

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The Press Democrat

The Press Democrat, with the largest circulation in the California North Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), is a daily newspaper published in Santa Rosa, California.

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Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868.

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Tokyo

, officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and has been the capital since 1869.

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Ukiyo-e

Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.

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University of Hertfordshire

The University of Hertfordshire is a university in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

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Woodblock printing in Japan

Woodblock printing in Japan (木版画, mokuhanga) is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e artistic genre of single sheets, but it was also used for printing books in the same period.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

The are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto.

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7 Wonders (board game)

7 Wonders is a board game created by Antoine Bauza in 2010 and originally published by Repos Production in Belgium.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tōkaidō_(road)

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