Mariko-juku
Mariko-juku ( Japanese 鞠 子 宿 / 丸子 宿 ) was the twentieth of the 53 stations of the Tōkaidō . It is located in what is now Suruga-ku in Shizuoka , Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan .
history
Mariko-juku was one of the smallest post offices of the Tōkaidō with about 795 inhabitants . Old houses from the Edo period can be found in Utsuinotani, which is between Mariko-juku and the neighboring post station Okabe-juku . Mariko Station had strong ties to the Minamoto , Imagawa, and Tokugawa clans .
Depiction of Hiroshige
The color woodcut by Hiroshige from the series "The 53 Stations of Tōkaidō" contains allusions to classical Japanese poetry and literature. Mariko was famous for tororojiru , a slurry of grated barley with Aonori and tororo , a kind of potato. This specialty became even better known through a poem by the famous Matsuo Bashō - ume wakana / Mariko no shuku / tororojiru (“Plums bloom, herbs sprout, and in Mariko there is tororojiru ”). Mariko and his specialty also appear in the novel Tōkaidōchū hizakurige ("On Shank's pony over the Tōkaidō") by Jippensha Ikku from the Edo period: the two protagonists of the story want to take a break in Mariko and eat tororojiru . The landlord grinds the potatoes and gets into a heated argument with his wife because her child starts screaming. The landlord hits his wife with a grater, whereupon she throws the porridge at him. A neighbor comes to mediate and all three slip on the porridge, which is why the protagonists of the story have to leave hungry.
On Hiroshige's depiction, in addition to signs praising the dishes ( meibutsu tororojiru , German “specialty tororo soup”), there is a blooming plum tree as an allusion to Basho's poem. Two men can also be seen eating soup and being served by a woman with a toddler on her back, which should be a clear reference to Jippensha's novel, with the difference that the two protagonists get something to eat here.
Adjacent post offices
- Tōkaidō
- Fuchū-shuku - Mariko-juku - Okabe-juku
literature
- Patrick Carey: Rediscovering the Old Tokaido. In the Footsteps of Hiroshige . Global Books UK, 2000, ISBN 1901903109
- Reiko Chiba: Hiroshige's Tokaido in Prints and Poetry . Tuttle, 1982, ISBN 0804802467
- Franziska Ehmcke: The Tōkaidō pictures as an example of intertextuality in the fine arts . In: Hilaria Gössmann and Andreas Mrugalla (eds.): 11th German-speaking Japanologentag in Trier 1999 , Volume II., Lit Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3825844641
- Jilly Taganau: The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan . Routledge Shorton , 2004, ISBN 0415310911
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Ehmcke 2001, 324
- ^ Mariko-juku ( Memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). www.uchiyama.info. Accessed January 22, 2010