HIOGO

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HIOGO [HYocol, a town of Japan in the province of Settsu, Nippon, on the western shore of the bay of Osaka, adjoining the foreign

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

of Kobe, 21 M. W. of Osaka by rail. The
growth of its prosperity has been very remarkable. Its population, including that of Kobe, was 135,639 in 1891, and 285,002 in 1903. From 1884 to the close of the century its trade increased nearly eightfold, and the increase was not confined to a few staples of commerce, but was spread over almost the whole trade, in which silk and

cotton

COTTON
COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
EDWARD
- EDWARD
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EDWARD
- EDWARD
LYNCH
- LYNCH, PATRICIO (1825–1886)
(1813–1866)
COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

fabrics, floor-mats , straw-plaits, matches, and

cotton

yarns are specially important. Kobe owes much of its prosperity to the fact of serving largely as the shipping port of Osaka, the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

manufacturing town in Japan. The foreign community, exclusive of Chinese, exceeds r000 persons. Kobe is considered the brightest and healthiest of all the places assigned as foreign settlements in Japan, its pure, dry air and granite subsoil constituting

special

SPECIAL

advantages. It is in rail-way communication with all parts of the country, and wharves admit of steamers of large size loading and discharging cargo without the aid of lighters. The area originally appropriated for a foreign

settlement

SETTLEMENT
SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

soon proved too restricted, and foreigners received permission to lease lands and houses direct from Japanese owners beyond the treaty limits, a privilege which, together with that of building villas on the hills behind the town, ultimately involved some diplomatic complications. Kobe has a shipbuilding yard, and docks in its immediate neighbourhood.
Hiogo has several temples of

interest

INTEREST

, one of which has near it a huge bronze statue of Buddha, while by the Minatogawa, which flows into the sea between Hiogo and Kobe, a temple commemorates the spot where Kusunoki Masashige, the mirror of Japanese loyalty, met his death in battle in 1336. The temple of Ikuta was erected on the site of the ancient fane built by Jingo on her return from Korea in the 3rd century.
Hiogo's

original

ORIGINAL

name was Bako. Its position near the entrance of the Inland Sea gave it some maritime importance from a very early period, but it did not become really prominent until the 12th century, when Kiyomori,

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of the Taira clan, transferred the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

from Kioto to Fukuhara, in Hiogo's immediate neighbourhood, and undertook various public works for improving the place. The

change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

was very brief, but Hiogo benefited permanently from the distinction.

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