Hagi (Yamaguchi)

Hagi (Japanese萩 市, -shi ) is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan.

History

Hagi is a significant old, reigned from the Mōri castle town, come from the many famous men (see below), who contributed to the Meiji Restoration, and then worked in Tokyo. After 1868, with the return of the fief to the Tennō (版 籍 奉还, hanseki Hokan ) lost the place in importance, but was on 1 July 1932 with the city ( shi) levied.

Due to the rapid shift of the political center of gravity Hagi heard (next to Kanazawa, Kadonodate ) remained about the places in which get much that can convey the atmosphere of a place of the samurai era. From the castle itself, however, only part of the bailey is obtained.

Worth seeing is the Hagi local history museum in the form of a samurai residence and the Kumaya Museum (熊 谷 美术馆, Kumaya Bijutsukan ) the Kumaya that were economic adviser to the Mōri over many generations. In addition to valuable scrolls, inter alia, there are also items that gave Siebold his friend Kumya, including his square piano.

Geography

Hagi is located west of Osaka, north of Yamaguchi and east of Nagato on the Japan Sea.

Traffic

  • Street: National Road 191, to Hiroshima or Shimonoseki
  • National Road 262, according to Hōfu
  • National Road 315, according to Shunan
  • National Road 490, to Ube
  • JR San'in Main Line to Kyoto or Shimonoseki

International Partnerships

  • Flag of South Korea Ulsan, since 29 October 1968 oldest Japanese Korean twinning
  • Germany 1992 is the 6 March 2005 is my finished to Hagi Asahi -son (now Akiragi - chiku - chiku and Sasanami ) entered into a partnership with Uhlingen birch village.

Adjacent Cities and Towns

  • Yamaguchi
  • Nagato
  • Masuda

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Noriko Anno, Judoka
  • Kido Takayoshi, politician of the Meiji Restoration
  • Takasugi Shinsaku, military leaders of the Meiji Restoration
  • Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859), Japanese intellectuals, teachers and revolutionary
  • Yamagata Aritomo (1838-1922), Japanese military leaders, politicians, national hero and prime minister
  • Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), Japanese politician and Prime Minister
  • Aoki Shuzo (1844-1914), Ambassador to Berlin, Foreign Minister
  • Miura Gorō (1847-1926), Japanese Lieutenant General and Consul at the Korean Empire
  • Katsura taro (1848-1913), Japanese military officer, politician and Prime Minister
  • Hokkai Takashima (1850-1931), Japanese painter and botanist
  • Giichi Tanaka (1863-1929), Japanese general, politician and Prime Minister
  • Inoue Kenkabō (1870-1934), Japanese writer
  • Nosaka Sanzo (1892-1993), Japanese politician and co-founder of the Communist Party of Japan
  • Takeo Kawamura ( b. 1942 ), Japanese politician
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