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Example sentences for: prefecture

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Of the Edo-era buildings that have survived or been restored, the most important are the main hall of Kan’eiji and the Toshogu Shrine to the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu — a lesser version of the great sanctum at Nikko, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture (see page 64).
Just north of Kyoto is Fukui, a prefecture long renowned for its unique combination of history and superb natural scenery.
Another visual treat in March is the annual fertility festival held at Tagata Jinja in Gifu Prefecture, north of Nagoya.
In the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Tokyo by train, Nikko is the final resting place of Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who died in 1616.
The prefecture puts its bureaucrats in the fine Renaissance Palazzo Corner (or Ca’ Grande), while gondoliers claim Othello’s Desdemona lived in the lovely late-Gothic Palazzo Contarini-Fasan.