World Heritage candidate Hikone Castle
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“Hikone Castle” is a castle of the national treasure in Shiga Prefecture Hikone City. It queues up, and it is specified for the national treasure, “Himeji Castle” registered in the cultural heritage of UNESCO now. Moreover, it is a special historic site in the country. It was registered in World Heritage tentative list of Japan in 1992.
Hikone Castle is geographically located in the narrow plain between the lake and the mountain, and located in the junction in the eastern country and the west country. The fight of the war and the elder sister river of [**mou] and humble become, and therefore, an important battle in the history of Japan (Gaku’s fight and Battle of Sekigahara) breaks out in this region because of old, and the castle has become an important base of the strategy. It is from the geographic importance that Ieyasu Tokugawa distributed ..Hideyoshi Toyotomi.. Mitsunari Ishida to this ground ..Ii Naomasa.. respectively. Moreover, large old and Ii Naosuke at the end of shogunate are spending vernal years to becoming the feudal lord in this bourg. Do the in existence of the residence where the age of the associate [gasono] misfortune was spent as “[**] [ki**] (burying [ginoya])” soon.
Hikone Castle is one of the castles with construction [sareta] [tenmamo] before Edo period. Do the in existence of such [tenmamo] in the Japanese whole country only by 12 places. The castle takes the form named ream district [shikihirayamashiro]. [Genmiyasono] specified for a place of scenic beauty in the country and the feudal lord garden of garden is easily distributed to the north side of the castle.
Specified [sareteiru] [tenmamo] is assumed to be a start to the national treasure, the one specified for national important cultural properties is abundant, and unusual stabling exists as an important cultural asset, too.
Knowing because of use as a lot of movies and the location sites of the drama might be also more abundant. For instance, it appears in ‘One minute of the samurai’ and ‘Inner halls of a palace’. It was selected to the 50th 100 person castle in Japan in 2006.
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