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Shinkanō-juku

former mid-station in Japan

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2023
Entity authorityQ3482266 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shinkanō-juku (新加納宿, Shinkanō-juku) was a mid-station along the Nakasendō in Edo period Japan. It was in between the post stations of Unuma-juku and Kanō-juku. It is located in the present-day town of Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Editorial summary

“Shinkanō-juku” enters the record as former mid-station in Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shinkanō-juku, former and mid-station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 36-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shinkanō-juku, former and mid-station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Shinkanō-juku” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shinkanō-juku, former and mid-station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3482266. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Shinkanō-juku”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Shinkanō-juku primary sources, Shinkanō-juku archive and Shinkanō-juku research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Shinkanō-juku” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.