Nikko

[ neek-kaw; English nik-oh, nee-koh ]

noun

1. a city on central Honshu, in central Japan: famous for shrines and temples.

Nikko

/ ˈniːkəʊ /

noun

1. a town in central Japan, on NE Honshu: a major pilgrimage centre, with a 4th-century Shinto shrine, a Buddhist temple (767), and the shrines and mausoleums of the Tokugawa shoguns. Pop: 17 527 (2002 est)

Example Sentences

The people are exceptionally artistic, yet the stone "lions" at Nikko Temple look as much like bulldogs as lions.

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Some of the so-called Imperial palaces around Nikko are most humble abodes, surrounded by a little strip of land.

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The cholera was upon us, and we decided to go to Nikko and spend a month there, near the F——s'.

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These were the former residences of princes, whom etiquette obliged to worship officially at Nikko.

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And so we got into Nikko as the sun was setting with the delicious sensation that at last we were in coolness and in shade.

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