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Words-and-Pictures:
Maisaka's Waki Honjin
(as seen on September 26th, 2001,
on the Old Tokaido section of the Aki
Meguri)
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| Note:
Maisaka
is in Shizuoka Prefecture. It is Station #30 (from Tokyo) on the
Old Tokaido Highway. You can read about my visit to the Waki
Honjin in my Logbook. You may also choose to start reading about
my Tokaido
journey at the beginning, or start at the top of my Aki
Meguri pages. |
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| This Waki Honjin--or Secondary Official
Inn--is elegant beyond belief. Just look at the interiors and
appointments (and compare it to the similar in at Futagawa): |
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There are two front
doors. The one on the right is for visitors; the one on
the left opens into a dirt-floored passage leading back into the
kitchen. Since this has a back door, one can walk straight
through to the back yard without removing one's shoes.
Brilliant. |
| Looking through the house, one sees
several tatami (straw-mat-floored) rooms and an inner
garden. The cases in the second room back contain prints
of the Tokaido by Hiroshige. |
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A well right in the kitchen; what
more could one ask for? |
| A stand-up tub. |
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Not a kickboard or scooter; compare
this to the modern
version. |
| I saw something like this--made of
stone and outside--at the Arai Barrier. What could it be? |
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This kago was on display in a
second-floor room. A kago a day...
(Who could fit inside this, anyway?)
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