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Matsue

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Matsue (mäts`ā), city (1990 pop. 142,956), capital of Shimane prefecture, SW Honshu, Japan, a port on the Sea of Japan. It is an important distribution center and a popular tourist spot. Landmarks include the 17th cent. Matsue Castle and a museum containing a collection of the manuscripts and letters of Lafcadio Hearn Hearn, Lafcadio , 1850–1904, American-Japanese author, b. Lefkás, Ionian Islands, of Irish-Greek parentage. He was educated in Ireland, England, and France before immigrating to the United States in 1869.
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, who lived in Matsue for 15 months in the late 19th cent. and wrote about the city and recorded its folktales.
Matsue 

a city in Japan, in western Honshu Island; port on the isthmus between Lake Shinji and Naka-no-umi Lagoon. It is the capital of Shimane Prefecture. Population, 118,000 (1970). Matsue has silk-spinning, wood-products, and food industries. Cottage industries include the production of lacquer ware, ceramics, and other articles.



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Men and women alike are mesmerized by people like Mike The Mouth Matsue, who recently won 1,000,000.
Lafcadio Hearn, the Greek-born writer who later took on the Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi, was said to have loved the sunset when he lived in Matsue in the late 19th century.
The 5000m heats then begin on Wednesday of next week and he left the training camp in Matsue in Japan earlier today for Beijing to complete his preparations.
 
 
 
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