City of Takamatsu and the Surroundings

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Adam Smith, Spirited Away. Beauty beckons tourists away from Japan’s
capital for castles, culture, culinary delights. Boston Herald, Mar 3, 2011.
http://bostonherald.com/entertainment
/travel/view.bg?articleid=1320635

Note:
(a) Takamatsu, Kagawa  香川県 高松市
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamatsu,_Kagawa
(b) Matsuyama, Ehime 愛媛県
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuyama_Ehime
(capital of Ehime prefecture)

"The name Ehime comes from the Kojiki 古事記 and means 'beautiful maiden.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Prefecture
(c) Spirited Away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away
(千と千尋の神隠し; a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film)
(d) mikan 蜜柑 (n): "mandarin orange (esp. the satsuma mandarin, Citrus
unshiu)"

All Japanese definitions are from Jim Breen's online Japanese dictionary.
(e) udon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udon
(thick wheat-flour noodle; The origin of udon in Japan is credited to
[Japanese] Buddhist priests who traveled to China: local areas specifically
attribute Kūkai 空海 or Enni )
(f) Podunk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podunk
(g) Ritsurin Garden 栗林 公園
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritsurin_Garden
(g) Muji
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muji
(Ryohin Keikaku Co.,Ltd. 株式会社良品計画 or Muji (無印良品, Mujirushi Ryō
hin) is a Japanese retail company which sells a wide variety of household
and consumer goods

shirushi 印 【しるし】 (n): "mark"
mujirushi 無印 【むじるし】 (adj): "unbranded <無印商品 unbranded good>"
(h) Zara
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zara_(clothing)
(a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer;  founded in 1975)

Company's website:
http://www.zara.com/
(i) Takamatsu Castle (Sanuki)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamatsu_Castle_(Sanuki)
(built in 1590)
(j) Marugame Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marugame_Castle
(丸亀城; located in Marugame 丸亀市, Kagawa Prefecture; The roots of the
current castle lie in 1587, when Marugame Castle was the residence of the
lord of the Sanuki Province 讃岐国, IKOMA Chikamasa 生駒 親正 (1526-1603))

koma  駒 【こま】 (n) "foal"
(k) Kotohira-gū
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotohira-g%C5%AB
(金刀比羅宮, also known as 金比羅大権現 or Konpira Shrine in English; a Shintō shrine in the town of Kotohira[-cho] 琴平町 in Nakatado District 仲多度郡 of Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is supposed to have been founded during the 1st century)

It may be confusing that the same Kotohira is represented by two sets of Kanji 琴平(町) and 金刀比羅(宮), but the former is "kun" or Japanese reading while the latter is "on" or Chinese reading.

* Compare 金刀比羅神社
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%88%80%E6%AF%94%E7%BE%85%E7%A5%9E%E7%A4%BE
(金刀比羅神社（ことひらじんじゃ）、琴平神社（ことひらじんじゃ）、金比羅神社（こんぴらじんじゃ）)

Kotohira 金刀比羅 is contracted as Konpira (which is occasionally spelled as Kompira, because in English it is always "m"--never "n"--before consonants b or p) 金比羅.

A shinto shrine is 神社 (on reading: jinja) or 宮 (kun reading: miya; on reading: gu).

(l) Shōdoshima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Ddoshima
(小豆島; an island located in the Inland Sea of Japan; famous for its stages of the "Twenty-Four Eyes" 二十四の瞳[, a 1954 Japanese film])

For a map, click 播磨灘 in
小豆島
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E8%B1%86%E5%B3%B6
(m) Isamu NOGUCHI 野口 勇 (1904-1988)

The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan 庭園美術館 (at 香川県木田郡)
http://www.isamunoguchi.or.jp/
(n) Genichiro INOKUMA  猪熊 弦一郎 (1902-1993)

* i or inoshishi 猪; 豬; 豕 (n) : "hog (esp. a wild boar, but also including the domesticated pig)"
* Marugama Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) 丸亀市猪熊弦一郎現代美術館
http://mimoca.org/index.php
(o) Konpira Grand Theatre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konpira_Grand_Theatre
(金毘羅大芝居, also known as Kanamaru-za 金丸座; a restored Kabuki theatre in Kotohira, Kagawa; originally constructed in 1835, and is the oldest kabuki theatre in Japan; takes its name from the nearby Kompira Shrine which is in turn named after the Hindu/Buddhist deity Kumbhira to which the shrine is dedicated)

* The present-day Konpira Shrine (worshiping a Shinto god named 大物主) was originally a (buddhist) temple that worshiped Buddhist god 宮毘羅大将. But at the beginning of Maiji reign, 廃仏毀釈 forced the changes.
大物主
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E7%89%A9%E4%B8%BB
(明治初年の廃仏毀釈の際、旧来の本尊に替わって大物主大神を祭神とした例が多い。  一例：香川県仲多度郡琴平町の金刀比羅宮は、本来は寺院だったものを神社に変更してしまい、その際本尊としては十二神将の一人の宮毘羅大将だったものを大物主大神に変更している。しかし、明治の諸改革は王政復古をポリシーに掲げていたので、中世、近世のご本尊は古代の神社登録資料にも沿う形で行われたので必ずしも出雲神への変更が的外れでなかった場合が多い)
(p) For Nao Island, see Naoshima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoshima
(直島; The island is known for its many contemporary art museums)
(q) For "Shikoku’s 88 sacred temples," see
88 Temple Pilgrimage
http://wikitravel.org/en/88_Temple_Pilgrimage
(八十八ヶ所巡り; a 1,200 kilometer loop around the island of Shikoku; Many of the temples are said to have been founded or restored by the revered monk and scholar Kūkai (空海), better known by his posthumous title Kōbō Daishi (弘法大師))
(r) The online version, unlike the print edition, of the Herald article does not carry three photographs, one of which has the caption that beautiful tree-lined Nakazu Banshoen park, bwlow, is one of the city's underappreciated treasure."

Nakazu Banshoen 中津 万象園 (located at 丸亀市中津町; built in 1688 as a villa for 京極 高豊)
http://gallery-fuuko.net/bansyoen/toppage1.htm

京極 高豊
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%AC%E6%A5%B5%E9%AB%98%E8%B1%8A
(きょうごく たかとよ KYOGOKU Takatoyo; 1655-1694; 讃岐国丸亀藩2代藩主)
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