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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.

Mito

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 “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.


Mito 

a city in Japan, on central Honshu. Administrative center of Ibaraki Prefecture. Population, 174,000 (1970). Mito is a major transportation junction. The city’s food and condiment industry includes milling, canning, and the production of confectionery goods and sake. Silk is spun locally, and metallurgical and machine-tool plants also operate. A botanical garden is located in Mito.



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