Nikko
a city on central Honshu, in central Japan: famous for shrines and temples.
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After I declined pastries festooned with sparkles, little Nikko pushed his glasses higher on his face and said, “We still have like nine miles to go today.”
The people are exceptionally artistic, yet the stone "lions" at Nikko Temple look as much like bulldogs as lions.
Where Half The World Is Waking Up | Clarence PoeSome of the so-called Imperial palaces around Nikko are most humble abodes, surrounded by a little strip of land.
The cholera was upon us, and we decided to go to Nikko and spend a month there, near the F——s'.
An Artist's Letters From Japan | John La FargeThese were the former residences of princes, whom etiquette obliged to worship officially at Nikko.
An Artist's Letters From Japan | John La Farge
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.
An Artist's Letters From Japan | John La Farge
British Dictionary definitions for Nikko
/ (ˈniːkəʊ) /
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)
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