Hikone (彦根市, Hikone-shi) is a city located in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2021[update], the city had an estimated population of 111,958 in...

Hikone Castle (彦根城, Hikone-jō) is a Japanese Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is considered the most...

Japan. Shiga Prefecture is home to Ōmi beef, the Eight Views of Ōmi, and Hikone Castle, one of four national treasure castles in Japan. Shiga was known...

Hikone, Shiga is a city in Japan. Hikone may also refer to: Hikone Domain, a feudal domain of Japan during the Edo period Hikone Station, a railway station...

Hikone Domain (彦根藩, Hikone-han) was a fudai feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. It was located in eastern Ōmi Province, in...

The Hikone screen (彦根屏風, Hikone byōbu) is a Japanese painted byōbu folding screen of unknown authorship made during the Kan'ei era (c. 1624–44). The 94-×-274...

20 May 2024. Ii Hikone Museum. "Hikone Castle Museum". ii-museum.jp (in Japanese). Kanakicho, Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture: Hikone Castle Museum. Retrieved...

created by the city government of Hikone, Japan. He was created in 2007 to mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Hikone Castle. The character design...

Shōwa period. However, carrom became known as "Hikone Karomu" (Hikone carrom) in Hikone, Shiga. The Hikone carrom board has larger pockets (not unlike those...

folklore of Ii Naotaka and the maneki-neko of Gōtoku-ji Temple. Hikone City is home to Hikone Castle, a National Treasure that was the base of the Ii clan...

served as the Bodai-ji (bodhi temple) of the Ii clan, who were lords of the Hikone Domain, in Edo period. It is known as the "cat temple" because of the maneki-neko...

Sawayama Castle (佐和山城, Sawayama-jō) was a castle in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. This castle was an important military stronghold of Ōmi...

facilities and several sales service offices. Fujitec has an elevator factory in Hikone, and an escalator factory in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, the USA (Cincinnati...

lands at Sawayama in Ōmi Province. He would finish the construction of Hikone castle in 1622, a project which had been started by his brother in 1603...

Hikone Station (彦根駅, Hikone-eki) is an interchange passenger railway station located in the city of Hikone, Shiga, Japan. It is operated jointly by the...

第10章 運輸および通信 [Hikone City Statistics (Reiwa 2nd Year Edition) Chapter 10 Transportation and Communications] (in Japanese). Japan: Hikone City. 2020. Retrieved...

university in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, with campuses in the cities of Ōtsu and Hikone. Founded in 1874, it was chartered as a university in 1949. Shiga University...

Hikone-Serikawa Station (ひこね芹川駅, Hikone-Serikawa-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, operated...

Daihatsu Arena Ukaruchan Arena Moriyama Citizens Gymnasium Proceed Arena Hikone Hikone Citizens Sports Center YMIT Arena Shiga Bank Gymnasium Shiga Lakestars...

and locals who feared a loss of their cultural heritage. In the case of Hikone Castle, even though the government ordered its dismantling, it was saved...

exchanges. Belize City, Belize (since 1967) Hikone, Shiga, Japan (since 1969) The schools in Ann Arbor and Hikone have regular exchanges. Peterborough, Ontario...

assigned under the command of Red Demon brigades of Ii Naomasa, the daimyo of Hikone under Tokugawa shogunate. In 1608, a daimyo named Tōdō Takatora was assigned...

known as 弐(II) Iris II, by Iris, 1987 Ii is a Japanese surname, daimyō of Hikone: Ii clan, Japanese clan (Sengoku period) Ii Naomasa, one of four Guardians...

he was elected Town Mayor of Hikone Town against his will while he was in Tokyo to negotiate the establishment of Hikone Commercial College（now, the Faculty...

and presented to the Tokugawa shogunate as a sustaining medicine by the Hikone Domain. In 1880s, Ōmi beef was sold as "Kobe beef" because it was shipped...

(2001). Biwako -sono koshō no yurai- [Lake Biwa, the origin of its name]. Hikone: Sunrise Publishing. ISBN 4-88325-129-2 Kunimune, Yoshio; Mitsunaga, Yasushi;...

Street, London, SE1 9DE, United Kingdom. Shots of Toranaga's castle used Hikone Castle in Shiga Prefecture. Shōgun was broadcast in the United States on...

Railway Shigaraki Line at Kibukawa. The Hikone to Yokaichi section opened in 1898, reaching Kibukawa in 1900. The Hikone to Takamiya section was electrified...

(いいなおのり）, May 22, 1848 – January 9, 1904) was the 16th (and final) daimyō of Hikone Domain in Bakumatsu period Japan and was the 35th hereditary chieftain of...

Tōshō-ji, Nagoshi Pass, Shōmyō-ji, Wakae Island Hikone-jō Shiga Prefecture 374 (1992) i, ii, iii, iv Hikone Castle Asuka-Fujiwara: Archaeological Sites of...