Fujisawa, Kanagawa
Fujisawa (藤沢市, Fujisawa-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]
History[change | change source]
In the Edo period, Fujisawa-shuku was 6th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[2]
The area of the city expanded around Yugyō-ji temple (遊行寺) after 1325.[1]
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References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujisawa, Kanagawa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 199.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
Other websites[change | change source]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fujisawa, Kanagawa.
- http://www.city.fujisawa.kanagawa.jp/introduce/english/ Archived 2014-09-06 at the Wayback Machine; (in Japanese)
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