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unusual facts about Shimada-juku



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Yuji Yoshino composed the songs, and Masanori Shimada and Round Table arranged them.

Agigawa Dam

The same area features a number of other attractions such as Ena Gorge, Iwamura Castle (made famous in the tale of the "Castle Mistress"), Japan Taishō Village (a theme park), the cities of Toki and Mizunami, which are well known for the production of Mino ceramic ware and Oribe ware; Magome-juku and Tsumago-juku, two stations on the Nakasendō, a road that connected Kyōto and Edo; Meiji Mura, and Inuyama Castle.

Atmospheric ghost lights

In a Yomihon (Ehon Sayo Shigure) from the Edo period, at Minakuchi, Ōmi (now Kōka, Shiga Prefecture) there was a person who made a livelihood out of selling jōsen (candy made from the sap of Rehmannia glutinosa, boiled into a paste) who was killed by a robber.

Goroku River

The river, whose name means "Frozen Dark One", was named after Mieji-juku, the 56th post town on the Nakasendō, a historical trading route.

Hirotoki Onozawa

Hirotoki Onozawa (小野澤宏時) (born March 29, 1978 in Shimada, Shizuoka, Japan) is rugby union who plays at wing (and sometimes full back) Suntory Sungoliath and the Japan national rugby union team.

Kambara Station

However, in between Yoshiwara-juku and Kanbara-juku there was a traditionally unnumbered intermediary post station where a branch road led to the pilgrimage location of Mount Minobu.

Kazuhiro Ninomiya

After graduating from Tenri University, Ninomiya entered the Shoki Juku under the instruction of Isao Okano.

Keni'chiro Arai

However, he would find championship success again the following month, for on June 28, he – along with Iwasa and newest Tozawa–juku member Shinobu – would capture the Open the Triangle Gate Titles from Shingo Takagi, YAMATO and Gamma.

Kinniku

Kinnikuman, manga created by Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada

Kiyosu-juku

Kiyosu-juku was originally formed as a castle town for Kiyosu Castle; however, the original town was decimated when much of the populace was moved to Nagoya Castle.

The Meiji emperor stayed in the honjin while traveling during his reign.

Mitsuo Matayoshi

After graduating from Chuo University in Tokyo in 1968, he moved back to Okinawa and ran a juku, a private school.

New Hazard

Takagi returned on May 6, teaming with Hulk to defeat the Tozawa-juku team of Akira Tozawa and Keni'chiro Arai; Onodera, using his former ring name Yamato, returned the following night, teaming with Hulk, Kong and Takagi to defeat Muscle Outlaw'z.

Nihongami

Other maiko hairstyles include wareshinobu (only worn during the actual apprenticeship, with a round curve on the top and sides and a round bun in the middle), Ofuku, Yakko-shimada, Katsuyama, and Sakko.

Niro Shimada

Hironobu Takesaki replaced Niro Shimada when November 21, 2008, the date of Shimada's mandatory retirement, came.

Ōi River

In cases of bad weather or high waters, they were forced to stay several days (or even several weeks) beside the river at post stations such as Shimada-juku or Kanaya-juku.

Richard Saldan

Early in his career, Saldan traveled the USA to study professional stage magic with celebrity experts in the field, such as Johnny Thompson, Rocco Silano, Jeff McBride, Mio Rodriguez, Martin Lewis, Haruo Shimada, Marc DeSouza, and Todd Robbins.

Seba-juku

Seba-juku was originally established in 1614, along with Shiojiri-juku and Motoyama-juku, in order to accommodate the change in the Nakasendō's route.

Sen Katayama

In 1878 Katayama travelled to Tokyo to apprentice as a printer while he studied at a small preparatory school, the Oka Juku, where he formed a friendship with Iwasaki Seikichi (岩崎 清吉), nephew of one of the founders of Mitsubishi.

Sendaidō

Ōtagawa-juku (太田川宿) (Izumizaki, Nishishirakawa District)

Sōkichi Takagi

Believing the only solution for Japan was the elimination of the Tojo-led government and negotiation of a truce with the United States, Takagi was hesitant to present the report to Shimada, instead beginning planning for the assassination of Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō before his removal from office in July 1944.

Toshihiko Koga

In April 2003, he founded the Koga Juku, a judo school for young children, in Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki.

Tsumago-juku

A quiet portion of the original highway has been preserved between Tsumago and Magome, the next post town (also restored).

Prior to becoming part of the Nakasendō, it was the tenth of eleven stations along the Kisoji, a minor trade route running through the Kiso Valley.

During the Edo period, however, its mountaintop location gave it wonderful views of both Tsumago-juku and Midono-juku.

Ushio Amagatsu

All Sankai Juku works since 1982 were premiered at and co-produced by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.

Vic Chao

He is best known for portraying Dr. Seiji Shamada in Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, Dr. Shinji Shimada in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising, and CTU Agent McCallan and FBI Agent Mark Dornan in two seasons of 24.

Yoshiwara-juku

The Yoshiwara-juku was originally located near the present-day Yoshiwara Station, on the modern Tōkaidō Main Line railway, but after a very destructive tsunami in 1639, was rebuilt further inland, on what is now the Yodahara section of present-day Fuji.


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