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{{short description|Forty-first of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō}}
[[File:Tokaido41 Miya.jpg|thumb|Miya-juku in the 1830s, as depicted by [[Hiroshige]] in the Hōeidō edition of  ''[[The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō]]'' (1831–1834)]]
{{nihongo|'''Miya-juku'''|宮宿|Miya-juku}} was the forty-first of the [[53 Stations of the Tōkaidō|fifty-three stations]] of the [[Tōkaidō (road)|Tōkaidō]]. It is located in former [[Owari Province]] in what is now part of the [[Atsuta-ku, Nagoya|Atsuta-ku]] section of the city of [[Nagoya, Aichi|Nagoya]], in [[Aichi Prefecture]], [[Japan]]. It was six&nbsp;km from [[Narumi-juku]], the preceding [[shukuba|post station]].<ref name="wada">[http://www.tokaido.co.jp/lab/wada/tour22.htm Tokaido 53: Miya-juku (Nagoya)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015191155/http://tokaido.co.jp/lab/wada/tour22.htm |date=2007-10-15 }}. {{in lang|ja}} Tōkaidō no Tabi. Accessed March 7, 2008.</ref>
==History==
In addition to being a post station on the Tōkaidō, Miya-juku was also part of the [[Minoji]] (a minor route which runs to [[Tarui-juku]] on the [[Nakasendō]]) and the [[Saya Kaidō]]. As a result, it had the most ''[[hatago]]'' of any post station along the Tōkaidō,  with two ''[[honjin]]'', one ''[[wakihonjin]]'' and 248 lesser inns.
The classic [[ukiyo-e]] print by [[Andō Hiroshige]] (''Hōeidō'' edition) from 1831 to 1834 depicts two gangs of men dragging a portable shrine cart (not shown) past a huge ''[[torii]]'' gate. The ''torii'' gate is the symbol of a [[Shinto shrine]], and the name of "Miya" also means a "Shinto shrine". The shrine in question is the famous [[Atsuta Shrine]], one of the most famous in Japan and a popular pilgrimage destination in the [[Edo period]]. <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/tokaido_hoeido_05.htm |title=Hiroshige - Tokaido Hoeido |access-date=2012-01-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216170131/http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido_hoeido/tokaido_hoeido_05.htm |archive-date=2011-12-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The area is now part of downtown Nagoya metropolis.
==Neighboring post towns==
;Tōkaidō
:[[Narumi-juku]] - '''Miya-juku''' - [[Kuwana-juku]]
;Saya Kaidō
:'''Miya-juku''' ''(starting location)'' - Iwazuka-juku
;[[Minoji]]
:'''Miya-juku''' ''(starting location)'' - [[Nagoya-juku]]
==Further reading==
*Carey, Patrick. ''Rediscovering the Old Tokaido:In the Footsteps of Hiroshige''. Global Books UK (2000). {{ISBN|1-901903-10-9}}
*Chiba, Reiko. ''Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry''. Tuttle. (1982) {{ISBN|0-8048-0246-7}}
*Taganau, Jilly. ''The Tokaido Road: Travelling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan''. RoutledgeCurzon (2004). {{ISBN|0-415-31091-1}}
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