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Mito (mē`tō), city (1990 pop. 234,968), capital of Ibaraki prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Naka River. It is chiefly a communications center. It produces electrical machinery, iron and steel products, chemicals, furniture, and handicrafts. From 1606 Mito was the seat of a branch of the Tokugawa family. The city's Tokiwa Park is one of the greatest landscape gardens of Japan. MitoJapanese 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 “Sonno joi” (“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 Shoin. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hitachi's Elevators, Escalators and Building Systems in Mito will manufacture the elevators, while Guangzhou Hitachi Elevator will produce the escalator systems. Rivera-Pagan, Mito, Exilio y demonios: Literatura y teologia en America Latina (Hato Rey: Publicaciones Puertorriquenas, 1996), and Essays from the Diaspora (Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 2002). Turning away from the religious to the erotic in her essay, "Il mercato dell'Eros: rappresentazioni della sessualita femminile nei soggetti mito logici," Bette Talvacchia focuses on the tradition of the single-sheet print, rather than print series like Marcantonio Raimondi's I modi to discuss the wide variety of interpretation related to this erotic imagery. |
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