Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Fujisawa (藤沢市, Fujisawa-shi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]

For Japanese Go players at Nihon Ki-in, see Rina Fujisawa and Hideyuki Fujisawa.
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History
See the main article: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō
Fujisawa — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1830s

In the Edo period, Fujisawa-shuku was 6th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.[2]

The area of the city expanded around Yugyō-ji temple (遊行寺) after 1325.[1]

References
  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fujisawa, Kanagawa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 199.
  2. Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.

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