Hirosaki, Japan

Japan

Hirosaki, Japan carries 71 Bunkabop connections with 3687 other places across 21 topics, with history forming the bulk of its ties. Its castle traces to a lord who sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara and was confirmed in holdings of 47,000 koku (a rice-based stipend measure), anchoring a deep cluster of Edo-period connections shared with Aomori and Tokyo. Composer Shunsuke Kikuchi was born here, and filmmaker Hiroko Nakano studied at Hirosaki Gakuin University. The Hirosaki Neputa Festival was named one of Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

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