Hagi, Yamaguchi

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Hagi is a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. There are 50,089 people living there. Twin towns are Ulsan, Jeollanam-do Yeongam-gun in Korea, and Ühlingen-Birkendolf in Germany. Hagi holds a camellia festival from the middle of February to the end of March. It has a Hagi-ware festival in the beginning of March.

History

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, Yoshida Shoin built the Shoka son school, where he taught many famous people. For example, Kido Takayoshi, Takasugi Shinsaku and Ito Hirobumi. They became the Meiji Restoration leaders.

Other websites

• Hagi camellia festival Archived 2015-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Hagi at wikivoyage.org
• Shoka son school Archived 2014-04-15 at the Wayback Machine