Note: This selection of Words-and-Pictures was made on September 26, 2001, as I walked on the Old Tokaido.
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.
This
Waki Honjin--or Secondary Official Inn--is elegant beyond belief. Just look at the interiors and appointments (and compare it to the similar inn at
Futagawa):
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.
A well right in the kitchen; what more could one ask for?
A stand-up tub.
Not a kickboard or scooter; compare this to
the modern version.
I also saw something like this--made of stone and outside--at the
Arai Barrier. What could it be?
This
kago was on display in a second-floor room. A
kago a day...
(Who could fit inside this, anyway?)
Posted October 1, 2019
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