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*''Author: Oliver Statler''

*''Author: Oliver Statler''

*''First Published: 1961, Random House''

*''First Published: 1961, Random House''

''Japanese Inn'' by [[Oliver Statler]] tells the history of Japan from 1550-1953 as seen through the eyes of the Mochizuki 望月 family, the owners of the Minaguchiya, a ''[[waki-honjin]]'' inn in the town of [[Okitsu]]<ref>Now part of Shimizu Ward, [[Shizuoka City]], in [[Shizuoka prefecture]].</ref>. The town, dominated by [[Seiken-ji|Seiken-ji temple]]　清見寺, lies a few miles east of [[Sunpu]] in [[Suruga province]] along the important [[Highways|Tokaido highway]]. The highway system and the inns that supported it were an important feature of the [[Edo Period]].

''Japanese Inn'' by [[Oliver Statler]] is a popular history telling the history of Japan from 1550-1953 as seen through the eyes of the Mochizuki 望月 family, the owners of the Minaguchiya, a ''[[waki-honjin]]'' inn in the town of [[Okitsu]]<ref>Now part of Shimizu Ward, [[Shizuoka City]], in [[Shizuoka prefecture]].</ref>. The town, dominated by [[Seiken-ji|Seiken-ji temple]]　清見寺, lies a few miles east of [[Sunpu]] in [[Suruga province]] along the important [[Highways|Tokaido highway]]. The highway system and the inns that supported it were an important feature of the [[Edo Period]]. The book became a bestseller soon after its initial publication in 1961, and was published in Japanese translation that same year.<ref>Gallery labels, Minaguchiya Gallery, Okitsu.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/50110890931/in/photostream/]</ref>

Seiken-ji regularly housed nobility and other elites who were passing through Okitsu. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] stayed there for a time during his childhood; [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] stayed there on the eve of the [[Siege of Odawara|siege of Odawara castle]], as did his tea master [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]]. The shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] on his way to Kyoto in [[1863]], and [[Meiji Emperor|Emperor Meiji]] on his way to the new capital of Tokyo also spent the night there, as did [[Korean embassies to Edo]].

Seiken-ji regularly housed nobility and other elites who were passing through Okitsu. [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] stayed there for a time during his childhood; [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] stayed there on the eve of the [[Siege of Odawara|siege of Odawara castle]], as did his tea master [[Sen no Rikyu|Sen no Rikyû]]. The shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]] on his way to Kyoto in [[1863]], and [[Meiji Emperor|Emperor Meiji]] on his way to the new capital of Tokyo also spent the night there, as did [[Korean embassies to Edo]].