Hagi, Yamaguchi
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Hagi (萩市; -shi) is a city located in Yamaguchi, Japan and was incorporated as a city on July 1, 1932.
As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 45,165 and a population density of 326.67 persons per km². The city's total area is 138.3 km².
Hagi-yaki
The city was the capital of the Choshu Domain during the Edo period (ca. 1603–1868). Hagi is renowned for hagi-yaki, a form of Japanese pottery dating from 1604 when two Korean potters were brought to Hagi by Mori Terumoto. Hagi was also the location for an International Sculpture Symposium in 1981. Twenty-six international sculptors working worked together to create a seaside park. They created many functional sculptures, including tables and benches.People
- Ito Hirobumi, Japan's first modern prime minister, was born in Hagi and studied at Yoshida Shoin's Shōka Sonjuku, a school in the town. Ito's birthplace is preserved next to a shrine that includes the school building in its compound.
- Inoue Masaru
- Takasugi Shinsaku
Sister cities
Since 1968, Hagi has been a sister city to Ulsan (울산광역시, 蔚山廣域市), a fishing port and market centre in the southeast of South Korea on the Sea of Japan about 70 km north of Busan.External links
- [Hagi official website] in Japanese
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| Hagi | Hikari | Hofu | Iwakuni | Kudamatsu | Mine | Nagato | Sanyo-Onoda | Shimonoseki | Shunan | Ube | Yamaguchi (capital) | Yanai | |||
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| Abu | Kuga | Kumage | Mine | Oshima | |||
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