is a
city located in
Shiga,
Japan.The city was incorporated on
February 11,
1937.Hikone's most famous historical site is
Hikone Castle. Its construction was begun in
1603 by Ii Naokatsu, son of the former lord,
Ii Naomasa, but was not completed until
1622. Naokatsu's lands had been taken from him in the interval by the Tokugawa shogunate, and when his brother Naotake assumed control of the Omi area, he was able to complete the castle by collecting stones from the former Sawayama castle. When the
Meiji era began in
1868, many castles were scheduled to be dismantled and only a request from the emperor himself, touring the area, kept Hikone-jo intact. Today it remains one of the oldest original-construction castles in Japan.
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