Mito

Mito
Mi·to (mēʹtō)
A city of east-central Honshu, Japan, northeast of Tokyo. It was the center of an important shogunate after 1600. Population: 246,851.

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Japanese han (domain) belonging to one of the three branches of the Tokugawa family from which the shogun was chosen during the Tokugawa period.

During the 19th century, nationalists from Mito adopted the slogan "Sonnō jōi" ("Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians"). Tokugawa Nariaki (1800–60), daimyo of Mito at the time of Commodore Matthew Perry's mission to Japan, called for Japan's continued isolation, supported by greater national unity and military renovation. See also Ii Naosuke; Meiji Restoration; Yoshida Shōin.

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Japan
      capital, Ibaraki ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the left bank of the Naka-gawa (Naka River). During the Heian era (794–1185) Mito developed around a Yoshida shrine, and its first castle was built during the Kamakura era (1192–1333). The city changed hands several times during the 15th and 16th centuries; in 1609 it became a fief of the Mito branch of the Tokugawa family, one of the three branches of that clan (san-ke) from which the shogun could be chosen. The Kasawara Aqueduct was constructed by the scholar and ruler Tokugawa Mitsukuni in 1663 and is still in use.

      During the Tokugawa era (1603–1867) Mito was an important commercial and cultural centre, known for its administrative and agrarian reforms. Its political support of the reestablishment of secular Imperial rule led to the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

      Since the opening of the Mito railway in 1889, the city has been a major transport centre. Industrialization was slow before the 1960s, consisting mainly of traditional manufactures including furniture, paper, and handicrafts. Since then, new industries have begun operation in the city, manufacturing electrical machinery, iron and steel products, and chemicals.

      Mito Park, in the city centre, contains the ruins of the Tokugawa castle; the Kodokan, an educational institution founded in the 19th century; and Shintō and Confucian shrines. Kairaku-en (Tokiwa Park) is one of Japan's most visited gardens, graced with numerous plum trees. Pop. (2005) 262,603.

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