March 11, 2024 (Monday) – July 15, 2024 (Monday, national holiday)
Keisai Eisen “Kiso Kaido Oiwake-juku Asama-zan View” (Kiso Kaido Oiwake-juku Asama-zan View)
Oiwajyuku Local Museum Storehouse
In the Edo period (1603-1867), there were three inn towns at the southern foot of Mt. Asama: Karuizawa-juku, Kutsugake-juku, and Oiwake-juku, which were called the “three inns of Asama-Nekoshi-no-Sanjuku. One of them, Oiwajuku, was located at the junction of the Nakasendo Road connecting Edo and Kyoto (Kyoto) and the Kitakuni Road leading from Oiwajuku to Echigo Province (Niigata Prefecture), and was a bustling post town as a transportation hub.
The procession with many attendants, such as feudal lords on the daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s daimyo’s retainer and court nobles going down to Edo, and pilgrimages to shrines and temples, such as visits to Ise and Zenkoji Temple,
People who took a hot-spring cure in Kusatsu, writers, merchants, traveling entertainers, hikis, and officials of the Shogunate and various clans passed through Oiwake-juku for various purposes.
This exhibition introduces how people traveled in the Edo period using materials from the Oiwajuku inn in the museum’s collection.
Admission: Adults 400 yen (300 yen) Elementary, junior high and high school students 200 yen (150 yen)
Group discount rates for groups of 20 or more people are shown in parentheses.
