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{{Short description|Pre-modern Japan post-station along highway}}
{{Infobox station
| name        = Kanō-juku
| native_name = 加納宿
| native_name_lang = ja
| type                = [[shukuba|post station]]
| image       = Kisokaido53 Kano.jpg
| alt         =
| caption     = [[Hiroshige]]'s print of Kanō-juku, part of the ''[[The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō|Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō]]'' series
| other_name  =
| address     = [[Gifu, Gifu| Gifu]] [[Gifu Prefecture]] (former Mino Province)
| country     = Japan
| coordinates = {{coord|35|24|20|N|136|45|34|E|display=inline, title|region:JP_type:landmark}}
| elevation =  14 meters
| line        =   [[Nakasendō]]
| distance    = 412.8&nbsp;km from [[Edo]]
| map_type    = Japan Gifu Prefecture#Japan
| map_dot_label       = Kanō-juku
| services    =
}}
[[Image:Kanōtenmangu.jpg|thumb|right|Kanō Tenmangu Shrine in Kanō-juku]]
{{nihongo|'''Kanō-juku'''|加納宿|Kanō-juku}} was the fifty-third of the [[69 Stations of the Nakasendō|sixty-nine stations]] of the [[Nakasendō]] connecting [[Edo]] with [[Kyoto]] in [[Edo period]] Japan. It is located in former [[Mino Province]] in what is now part of the city of [[Gifu, Gifu|Gifu]], [[Gifu Prefecture]],  [[Japan]].<ref name="miru">[http://www.city.gifu.gifu.jp/kankou/miru_14.html Nakasendo to Shukuba-machi] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813104751/http://www.city.gifu.gifu.jp/kankou/miru_14.html |date=2007-08-13 }}. Gifu City Hall. Accessed September 9, 2007.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ibisoku.co.jp/nakasenndou/kanou_Top.htm%E3%80%80Kan%C5%8D-juku  |access-date=2020-02-13 |title=株式会社イビソク &#124; 総合建設コンサルタント 総合文化財コンサルタント 空間データ基盤整備 機材レンタル・企画展示 }}{{dead link|date=March 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>[http://home.b05.itscom.net/kaidou/nakasendo/5gifu/53kanou.html Kanō-juku]</ref>
==History==
Kanō-juku is located just south of [[Gifu Station|JR Gifu Station]] in [[Japan]], and was a [[jōkamachi|castle town]] for [[Kanō Castle]]. The first construction of Kanō Castle began in 1445 by [[Saitō Toshinaga]], who was a vassal of the [[Toki clan]]; however, this castle was abandoned by 1538. Following the [[Battle of Sekigahara]], the victorious [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] awarded [[Gifu Castle]] to his son-in-law, [[Okudaira Nobumasa]]. However, due to its poor state of repair, Nobumasa decided to abolish Gifu Castle and to relocate to a new castle built on the site of the old Kanō Castle. This new structure was completed in 1603 in record time, as Ieyasu had ordered various ''[[daimyō]]'' to contribute materials, labor and money for its construction, and the largest three-story ''yagura'' was transferred from Gifu Castle to be its ''[[tenshu]]''.<ref name="map1">''Gifu City Walking Map''. Gifu Lively City Public Corporation, 2007.</ref> The design of the castle was also kept simple, with a minimal number of towers, as the castle was being constructed as a center of local administration in peacetime.
Per the 1843 {{nihongo4|"中山道宿村大概帳"| Nakasendō Shukuson Taigaichō}} guidebook issued by the {{nihongo|Inspector of Highways|道中奉行|Dōchu-būgyō}}, the town had a population of 2728 people in 805 houses, including one ''[[honjin]]'', one ''waki-honjin,'' and 35 ''[[hatago]]''.  It extended for approximately {{Convert|2.3|km|mi|1|abbr=on}} along the highway,<ref name="map"> ''Gifu City Walking Map''. Gifu Lively City Public Corporation, 2007.</ref> making it the largest post town in [[Mino Province]]. The town was noted for its production of ''[[washi]]'' (Japanese paper). It is located 412.8 kilometers from Edo. During the [[Bakumatsu period]], [[Princess Kazu|Princess Kazu-no-miya]] stayed at the ''honjin'' in Kanō-juku in 1861 en route to marry [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] in Edo.
The [[1891 Mino–Owari earthquake]] and the 1945 [[Bombing of Gifu in World War II]] destroyed all of the old buildings at Kanō-juku, with the exception of some structures of the [[Kanō Tenman-gū]], which had originally been built to  serve as a place of worship for the castle's residents .
== Kanō-juku in ''The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō''==
[[Utagawa Hiroshige]]'s ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' print of Kanō-juku dates from 1835 -1838. The print depicts a ''[[daimyō]]'' procession on ''[[sankin kōtai]]'' departing Kanō Castle at dawn. The ''[[tenshu]]'' of Kanō Castle had burned down in 1728 and was never rebuilt, and Hiroshige depicts the castle accurately with low stone walls and a corner [[yagura (tower)|''yagura'' watchtower]]. The road is lined with pine trees, and the ''[[kago]]'' containing the ''daimyō'' himself can just be seen at the far right side of the composition.
==Neighboring post towns==
;Nakasendō
:[[Unuma-juku]] - '''Kanō-juku''' - [[Gōdo-juku]]
:([[Shinkanō-juku]] was an ''[[ai no shuku]]'' located between Unuma-juku and Kanō-juku.)
== Notes ==
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==References==
*{{cite book |last=Izzard |first=Sebastian |title=The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido |year=2008 |publisher=George Braziller |isbn=978-0807615935}}
*{{cite book|last=Berna |first=Cristina |title=Hiroshige 69 Stations of the Nakasendō  |year=2019|publisher=  Missys Clan |isbn= 978-2919787661 }}
*{{cite book|last=Kishimoto |first=Yutaka |title=中山道浪漫の旅 書き込み手帖  |year=2016|publisher=  Shinano Mainichi Shimbun |isbn= 978-4784072972 }} {{in lang|ja}}
*{{cite book|last=Yagi |first=Makio |title=ちゃんと歩ける中山道六十九次 西 藪原宿~京三条大橋 |year=2014|publisher= 山と渓谷社 |isbn=  978-4635600781 }} {{in lang|ja}}
==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160331192433/http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/kisokaido/kisokaido01.htm Hiroshige Kiso-Kaido series]
*[https://sites.google.com/site/onkisokaidoroad/the-69-stations/stations-51-60/kisokaido-kano-station-53?authuser=0 Kano-juku on Kiso Kaido Road]
*[http://www.nakasendo.gifu.jp/guide/detail.php?p=11 Gifu Nakasendo Guide] {{in lang|ja}}
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