Travel poster for the Hikone Biwako Fireworks Festival. featuring an illustration of people watching fireworks over Lake Biwa and Hikone Castle on the horizon (1950). Artwork by Sunrise Toyohide.
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BLEACH: Can't Fear Your Own World (fandub)
Chapters 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 (End of Volume 2)
Chapter 1 - 5
Chapter 6 - 10
Chapter 11 - 14
Chapter 19 - 22
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Hikone Castle / 彦根城 por HarQ Yamaguchi
Por Flickr:
View On Black
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Hikone Sawayama: summit & castle
It's not about what is there today, as much as it's about what was there. Sawayama was the original location of Hikone Castle, and it is quite possibly the most important castle in Japan to have been completely lost, as it was the castle of Ishida Mitsunari, the leader of the Western Army which lost the battle to unite Japan following the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. There are so few traces of the castle, no obvious tell-tale structures... This small altar may trace its roots back to the days of the castle, or maybe not, but this is just about it.
Sawayama Castle was thoroughly dismanted after 1600 following the defeat of Ishida, as the new lord of the area, Ii Naomasa, appointed by the victorious Tokugawa clan, relocated the castle to a smaller hill closer to Lake Biwa. Hikone Castle, which still stands today, basically recycled the materials from Sawayama, and the view of the "new" castle complex and the lake is the main draw for hikers today.
The summit offers good views of the mountains on the other side too, with the industrial complexes near Maibara, most noticeably Fujitec and their 170 m-tall elevator test tower, in the foreground.
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Shiga Prefecture by Visit Japan AU
Omihachiman
Hikone
Lake Biwa
Koka & Shigaraki
An underrated prefecture in Japan which is not as touristy and crowed as Kyoto but not as remote and isolated as the countryside but still as beautiful.
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Two Geishas in Hikone Park - Nobukuni Enami - 1898 - Colorized version of 🔽
Another colorization🔽
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彦根城・楽々園 ∣ Hikone Castle・Shiga por Iyhon Chiu
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BLEACH: Can't Fear Your Own World (fandub)
Chapters 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (All of Volume 1)
Chapter 6 - 10
Chapter 11 - 14
Chapter 15 - 18
Chapter 19 - 22
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probably around fifteen, if measured in the way of the world of the living. And while no one would argue that the child was a beauty, their androgynous face made it impossible to determine their gender.
“What were you doing, Hikone? Surely you weren’t just standing there”
OH MY GOSH CANON NONBINARY CHARACTER!!!!!
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