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id="toc-Local_attractions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Local_attractions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Local attractions</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Local_attractions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Local attractions subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Local_attractions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Festivals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Festivals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>Festivals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Festivals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people_from_Matsue" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people_from_Matsue"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notable people from Matsue</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people_from_Matsue-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> 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interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%87" title="ماتسوئه – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ماتسوئه" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matue-chh%C4%AB" title="Matue-chhī – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Matue-chhī" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B5" title="Мацуе – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мацуе" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue_Shi" title="Matsue Shi – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Matsue Shi" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macue" title="Macue – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Macue" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum mw-list-item"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ChiTumbuka</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue_(Shimane)" title="Matsue (Shimane) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Matsue (Shimane)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macue" title="Macue – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Macue" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%87" title="ماتسوئه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ماتسوئه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue-s%E1%B9%B3" title="Matsue-sṳ – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Matsue-sṳ" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%93%B0%EC%97%90%EC%8B%9C" title="마쓰에시 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마쓰에시" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A5" title="Մացուե – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Մացուե" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue,_Shimane" title="Matsue, Shimane – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Matsue, Shimane" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue,_Shimane" title="Matsue, Shimane – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Matsue, Shimane" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuj%C4%97" title="Macujė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Macujė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macue" title="Macue – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Macue" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7" title="ماتسوا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ماتسوا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%87" title="ماتسوئه – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="ماتسوئه" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BE%E6%B1%9F%E5%B8%82" title="松江市 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="松江市" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D1%8D" title="Мацуэ – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Мацуэ" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue_(Shimane)" title="Matsue (Shimane) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Matsue (Shimane)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsue" title="Matsue – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Matsue" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" 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.infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Matsue</div> <div class="nickname ib-settlement-native" lang="ja"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">松江市</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Core_cities_of_Japan" title="Core cities of Japan">Core city</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Matsue_montage.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="From top left: Kumano Taisha, Yaegaki Shrine, Miho Shrine, Matsue Castle, Lake Shinji (Yomegashima), Tamatsukuri hot springs, Mihonoseki Lighthouse, Night view of Matsue"><img alt="From top left: Kumano Taisha, Yaegaki Shrine, Miho Shrine, Matsue Castle, Lake Shinji (Yomegashima), Tamatsukuri hot springs, Mihonoseki Lighthouse, Night view of Matsue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Matsue_montage.jpg/250px-Matsue_montage.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="344" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Matsue_montage.jpg/375px-Matsue_montage.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Matsue_montage.jpg/500px-Matsue_montage.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1222" data-file-height="1683" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">From top left: Kumano Taisha, Yaegaki Shrine, <a href="/wiki/Miho_Shrine" title="Miho Shrine">Miho Shrine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Castle" title="Matsue Castle">Matsue Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Shinji" title="Lake Shinji">Lake Shinji</a> (Yomegashima), Tamatsukuri hot springs, Mihonoseki Lighthouse, Night view of Matsue</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1028600610">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols{text-align:center;display:table;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-row{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cell{display:table-cell;vertical-align:middle}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-cols-cellt{display:table-cell;vertical-align:top}</style> <div class="ib-settlement-cols"> <div class="ib-settlement-cols-row"><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Matsue,_Shimane.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Matsue"><img alt="Flag of Matsue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/100px-Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/150px-Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/200px-Flag_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emblem_of_Matsue,_Shimane.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Official seal of Matsue"><img alt="Official seal of Matsue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/100px-Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/150px-Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg/200px-Emblem_of_Matsue%2C_Shimane.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Emblem</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container floatright" style="width: 300px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="300" data-height="200" data-zoom="8" data-overlays="["_d1f068ef54b20cd9fbf6249976ee532bde24ff99"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,300x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Matsue&revid=1249026881&groups=_d1f068ef54b20cd9fbf6249976ee532bde24ff99" width="300" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,300x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Matsue&revid=1249026881&groups=_d1f068ef54b20cd9fbf6249976ee532bde24ff99 2x" alt="Map" /></a><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location of Matsue in Shimane Prefecture</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of Matsue"><img alt="Location of Matsue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg/250px-Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg/375px-Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg/500px-Matsue_in_Shimane_Prefecture_Ja.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="610" data-file-height="579" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap 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alt="Matsue is located in Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg/250px-Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg/375px-Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg/500px-Japan_location_map_with_side_map_of_the_Ryukyu_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="413" data-file-height="373" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:65.606%;left:22.865%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Matsue"><img alt="Matsue" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Matsue</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location in Japan</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Matsue&params=35_28_05_N_133_02_55_E_region:JP-32_type:city(196748)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">35°28′05″N</span> <span class="longitude">133°02′55″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">35.46806°N 133.04861°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">35.46806; 133.04861</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Japan</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Japan" title="List of regions of Japan">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku_region" title="Chūgoku region">Chūgoku</a> (<a href="/wiki/San%27in_region" title="San'in region">San'in</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Prefectures_of_Japan" title="Prefectures of Japan">Prefecture</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shimane_Prefecture" title="Shimane Prefecture">Shimane</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Mayor</th><td class="infobox-data">Uesada Akihito (since April 2021) (<a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Ind.</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">572.99 km<sup>2</sup> (221.23 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(March 31, 2023)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">196,748</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">340/km<sup>2</sup> (890/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B09:00" title="UTC+09:00">UTC+09:00</a> (<a href="/wiki/Japan_Standard_Time" title="Japan Standard Time">JST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">City hall address</th><td class="infobox-data">86 Suetsugu, Matsue-shi, Shimane-ken 690-8540</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Climate</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">Cfa</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.city.matsue.shimane.jp">Official website</a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1141396924">.mw-parser-output .ib-region-symbols-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-region-symbols-none{float:none;clear:none;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output 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</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Matsue</b><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<a href="/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language">Japanese</a>: <span lang="ja">松江市</span>, <a href="/wiki/Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Hepburn</a>: <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Matsue-shi</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> is the capital <a href="/wiki/Cities_of_Japan" title="Cities of Japan">city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Shimane_Prefecture" title="Shimane Prefecture">Shimane Prefecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, located in the <a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%ABgoku_region" title="Chūgoku region">Chūgoku region</a> of <a href="/wiki/Honshu" title="Honshu">Honshu</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 31 March 2023<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, the city had an estimated <a href="/wiki/Population" title="Population">population</a> of 196,748 in 91287 households and a <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> of 340 persons per km².<sup id="cite_ref-Matsue-hp_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Matsue-hp-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The total area of the city is 572.99 square kilometres (221.23 sq mi). Matsue is home to the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa</a>-era <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Castle" title="Matsue Castle">Matsue Castle</a>, one of the last surviving <a href="/wiki/Feudal" class="mw-redirect" title="Feudal">feudal</a> castles in Japan. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue is located at the northernmost point of Shimane Prefecture, between <a href="/wiki/Lake_Shinji" title="Lake Shinji">Lake Shinji</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nakaumi" title="Nakaumi">Nakaumi</a> on the banks of the Ohashi River connecting the two lakes, though the <a href="/wiki/City_proper" title="City proper">city proper</a> reaches the <a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Japan" title="Sea of Japan">Sea of Japan</a> coast. Matsue is the center of the Lake Shinji-Nakaumi <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_area" title="Metropolitan area">metropolitan area</a>, which has a population of approximately 600,000 in 2020. The Lake Shinji-Nakaumi metropolitan area is the fourth largest on the <a href="/wiki/Sea_of_Japan" title="Sea of Japan">Sea of Japan</a> coast after <a href="/wiki/Niigata_(city)" title="Niigata (city)">Niigata</a>, Greater <a href="/wiki/Kanazawa" title="Kanazawa">Kanazawa</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fukui_(city)" title="Fukui (city)">Fukui</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue has a <a href="/wiki/Humid_subtropical_climate" title="Humid subtropical climate">humid subtropical climate</a> (<a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification" title="Köppen climate classification">Köppen climate classification</a> <i>Cfa</i>) with very warm summers and cool winters. Precipitation is abundant throughout the year, and is somewhat heavier in June, July and September. The average annual temperature in Matsue is 15.2 °C (59.4 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,791.9 mm (70.55 in) with July as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.1 °C (80.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around 4.6 °C (40.3 °F).<sup id="cite_ref-JMA_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The highest temperature ever recorded in Matsue was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) on 1 August 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −8.7 °C (16.3 °F) on 19 February 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-JMA_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Matsue (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1940−present) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9021; color:#000000;" class="notheme">20.6<br />(69.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.7<br />(76.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.4<br />(79.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF4A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.7<br />(87.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF3E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.4<br />(90.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.0<br />(95.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF1E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.1<br />(98.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF1400; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">38.5<br />(101.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF2500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.1<br />(97.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF4000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">32.1<br />(89.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.4<br />(81.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.2<br />(73.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF1400; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">38.5<br />(101.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(46.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFDDBB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.4<br />(48.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC388; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.1<br />(55.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF9E3E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.5<br />(65.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF7E00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.2<br />(73.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF6900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.2<br />(79.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF5000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.8<br />(85.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF4400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.6<br />(88.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.1<br />(80.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF860D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.0<br />(71.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC59; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.5<br />(61.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD2A6; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9<br />(51.6) </td> <td style="background: #FF962D; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">19.7<br />(67.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFFEFD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.6<br />(40.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.0<br />(41.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0<br />(46.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC388; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.1<br />(55.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.0<br />(64.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF8811; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.7<br />(71.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.8<br />(78.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF6300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">27.1<br />(80.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8001; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.9<br />(73.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(63.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCB97; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.0<br />(53.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.0<br />(44.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFB56B; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">15.2<br />(59.4) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EEEEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.5<br />(34.7) </td> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(38.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE5CC; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.2<br />(46.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFC082; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.5<br />(56.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFA042; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.2<br />(64.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF8002; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.8<br />(73.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">23.8<br />(74.8) </td> <td style="background: #FF962E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.6<br />(67.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFC184; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.4<br />(56.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CE; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.0<br />(46.4) </td> <td style="background: #FAFAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.6<br />(38.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">11.4<br />(52.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #C1C1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.9<br />(19.6) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−8.7<br />(16.3) </td> <td style="background: #CDCDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.7<br />(23.5) </td> <td style="background: #DBDBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.1<br />(28.2) </td> <td style="background: #F3F3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.4<br />(36.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D1; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.8<br />(46.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFC58B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.9<br />(55.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFB46A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.3<br />(59.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFE7D0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.9<br />(46.2) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.6<br />(34.9) </td> <td style="background: #D9D9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.4<br />(27.7) </td> <td style="background: #BEBEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−7.5<br />(18.5) </td> <td style="background: #B7B7FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−8.7<br />(16.3) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #1AFF1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">153.3<br />(6.04) </td> <td style="background: #3DFF3D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">118.4<br />(4.66) </td> <td style="background: #37FF37; color:#000000;" class="notheme">134.0<br />(5.28) </td> <td style="background: #50FF50; color:#000000;" class="notheme">113.0<br />(4.45) </td> <td style="background: #3CFF3C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">130.3<br />(5.13) </td> <td style="background: #00F300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">173.0<br />(6.81) </td> <td style="background: #00A100; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">234.1<br />(9.22) </td> <td style="background: #3DFF3D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">129.6<br />(5.10) </td> <td style="background: #00C300; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">204.1<br />(8.04) </td> <td style="background: #43FF43; color:#000000;" class="notheme">126.1<br />(4.96) </td> <td style="background: #43FF43; color:#000000;" class="notheme">121.6<br />(4.79) </td> <td style="background: #18FF18; color:#000000;" class="notheme">154.5<br />(6.08) </td> <td style="background: #1CFF1C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,791.9<br />(70.55) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average snowfall cm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #00005C; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">28<br />(11) </td> <td style="background: #000065; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">25<br />(9.8) </td> <td style="background: #A5A5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6<br />(2.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #FFFFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0<br />(0) </td> <td style="background: #5B5BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">11<br />(4.3) </td> <td style="background: #A8A8FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">68<br />(27) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 0.5 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #0000F9; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">21.1 </td> <td style="background: #1A1AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">16.9 </td> <td style="background: #4545FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">15.0 </td> <td style="background: #6B6BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6 </td> <td style="background: #7E7EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.4 </td> <td style="background: #6666FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12.0 </td> <td style="background: #6262FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12.7 </td> <td style="background: #7C7CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6 </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12.6 </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.0 </td> <td style="background: #4141FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14.9 </td> <td style="background: #0A0AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">19.8 </td> <td style="background: #4D4DFF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">169.7 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Relative_humidity" class="mw-redirect" title="Relative humidity">relative humidity</a> (%) </th> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000E2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">74 </td> <td style="background: #0000EA; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">72 </td> <td style="background: #0000F2; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">70 </td> <td style="background: #0000EE; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">71 </td> <td style="background: #0000D3; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78 </td> <td style="background: #0000CB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">80 </td> <td style="background: #0000D7; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">77 </td> <td style="background: #0000CF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">79 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DB; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">76 </td> <td style="background: #0000DF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">75 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #7B7B7B; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67.4 </td> <td style="background: #ABAB9E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">88.6 </td> <td style="background: #BFBF27; color:#000000;" class="notheme">140.5 </td> <td style="background: #D5D500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">182.4 </td> <td style="background: #D9D900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">206.5 </td> <td style="background: #C9C900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">157.1 </td> <td style="background: #CCCC00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">168.6 </td> <td style="background: #D7D700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">201.0 </td> <td style="background: #C4C40A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">146.2 </td> <td style="background: #C6C601; color:#000000;" class="notheme">154.4 </td> <td style="background: #B5B566; color:#000000;" class="notheme">113.8 </td> <td style="background: #909090; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">78.8 </td> <td style="background: #C1C11C; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,705.2 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: Japan Meteorological Agency<sup id="cite_ref-JMA_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JMA-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for <a href="/wiki/Kashima,_Shimane" title="Kashima, Shimane">Kashima</a>, Matsue (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1978−present) </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record high °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.3<br />(66.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF8104; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.7<br />(72.9) </td> <td style="background: #FF7300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">24.7<br />(76.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF5400; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.3<br />(84.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF4200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.8<br />(89.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2C00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.1<br />(95.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF2000; color:#000000;" class="notheme">36.8<br />(98.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF1B00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">37.5<br />(99.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF2700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">35.8<br />(96.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4300; color:#000000;" class="notheme">31.7<br />(89.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF6500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.8<br />(80.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF850B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.2<br />(72.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF1B00; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">37.5<br />(99.5) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFE4CA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.3<br />(46.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.1<br />(48.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.5<br />(54.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA347; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.8<br />(64.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF8206; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.5<br />(72.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF6D00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.6<br />(78.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF5500; color:#000000;" class="notheme">29.1<br />(84.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF4A00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">30.7<br />(87.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF6600; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.7<br />(80.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8710; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.8<br />(71.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFAC59; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.5<br />(61.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFD1A4; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.1<br />(52.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">19.3<br />(66.8) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Daily mean °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFFCFA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.8<br />(40.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFFBF8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">5.0<br />(41.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC790; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.5<br />(54.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.4<br />(63.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8C1A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.1<br />(70.0) </td> <td style="background: #FF7100; color:#000000;" class="notheme">25.1<br />(77.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF6800; color:#000000;" class="notheme">26.3<br />(79.3) </td> <td style="background: #FF8409; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.3<br />(72.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.9<br />(62.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFCC9A; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8<br />(53.2) </td> <td style="background: #FFEDDB; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.1<br />(44.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFB871; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">14.8<br />(58.7) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #EDEDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.3<br />(34.3) </td> <td style="background: #EBEBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">0.9<br />(33.6) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.6<br />(36.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFEEDD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.9<br />(44.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.3<br />(54.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA64E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">17.3<br />(63.1) </td> <td style="background: #FF8710; color:#000000;" class="notheme">21.8<br />(71.2) </td> <td style="background: #FF8205; color:#000000;" class="notheme">22.6<br />(72.7) </td> <td style="background: #FF9F3F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.4<br />(65.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.3<br />(54.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4<br />(45.3) </td> <td style="background: #F9F9FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.4<br />(38.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD4AA; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">10.6<br />(51.1) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Record low °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #C3C3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−6.6<br />(20.1) </td> <td style="background: #B1B1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−9.9<br />(14.2) </td> <td style="background: #CECEFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−4.5<br />(23.9) </td> <td style="background: #DADAFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−2.3<br />(27.9) </td> <td style="background: #F4F4FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.5<br />(36.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDFBF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.1<br />(48.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC993; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.3<br />(54.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFB872; color:#000000;" class="notheme">14.7<br />(58.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFEBD8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.3<br />(45.1) </td> <td style="background: #F6F6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.0<br />(37.4) </td> <td style="background: #E2E2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−0.8<br />(30.6) </td> <td style="background: #D3D3FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">−3.5<br />(25.7) </td> <td style="background: #B1B1FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">−9.9<br />(14.2) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #28FF28; color:#000000;" class="notheme">143.7<br />(5.66) </td> <td style="background: #4EFF4E; color:#000000;" class="notheme">108.0<br />(4.25) </td> <td style="background: #44FF44; color:#000000;" class="notheme">124.9<br />(4.92) </td> <td style="background: #5CFF5C; color:#000000;" class="notheme">105.6<br />(4.16) </td> <td style="background: #49FF49; color:#000000;" class="notheme">121.5<br />(4.78) </td> <td style="background: #00FD00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">166.9<br />(6.57) </td> <td style="background: #00AE00; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">224.8<br />(8.85) </td> <td style="background: #33FF33; color:#000000;" class="notheme">136.4<br />(5.37) </td> <td style="background: #00CB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">198.9<br />(7.83) </td> <td style="background: #48FF48; color:#000000;" class="notheme">122.6<br />(4.83) </td> <td style="background: #34FF34; color:#000000;" class="notheme">131.8<br />(5.19) </td> <td style="background: #13FF13; color:#000000;" class="notheme">157.7<br />(6.21) </td> <td style="background: #22FF22; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,742.8<br />(68.61) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ 1.0 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #1B1BFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">18.4 </td> <td style="background: #3C3CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14.4 </td> <td style="background: #5C5CFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.2 </td> <td style="background: #8282FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.8 </td> <td style="background: #8E8EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.1 </td> <td style="background: #7676FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.7 </td> <td style="background: #6D6DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8 </td> <td style="background: #8989FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5 </td> <td style="background: #6C6CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.5 </td> <td style="background: #7C7CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.6 </td> <td style="background: #5454FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.4 </td> <td style="background: #2222FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">17.9 </td> <td style="background: #6161FF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">150.3 </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean monthly <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_duration" title="Sunshine duration">sunshine hours</a> </th> <td style="background: #656565; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">55.8 </td> <td style="background: #A2A2A2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">81.0 </td> <td style="background: #C0C023; color:#000000;" class="notheme">142.1 </td> <td style="background: #D7D700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">192.4 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">215.8 </td> <td style="background: #CCCC00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">163.8 </td> <td style="background: #D2D200; color:#000000;" class="notheme">181.6 </td> <td style="background: #DBDB00; color:#000000;" class="notheme">214.9 </td> <td style="background: #C9C900; color:#000000;" class="notheme">156.9 </td> <td style="background: #C7C700; color:#000000;" class="notheme">157.8 </td> <td style="background: #B1B17D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">105.8 </td> <td style="background: #7A7A7A; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">67.1 </td> <td style="background: #C2C215; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">1,735.1 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: <a href="/wiki/Japan_Meteorological_Agency" title="Japan Meteorological Agency">Japan Meteorological Agency</a><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demographics">Demographics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Per Japanese census data, the population of Matsue in 2020 is 203,616 people.<sup id="cite_ref-zensus_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zensus-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Matsue has been conducting censuses since 1920. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale" style="width:45em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:none;clear:none;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding:0 0.5em"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1920 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">118,138</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1925 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">122,592</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1930 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">129,262</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1935 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">135,250</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"> 1940 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">134,221</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1945 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">154,617</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+15.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1950 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">159,374</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.1%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1955 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">166,907</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1960 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">168,375</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"> 1965 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">169,153</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+0.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1970 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">175,399</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1975 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">184,157</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1980 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">194,173</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+5.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1985 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">201,026</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.5%</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="padding:0 0.5em;border-left:solid 1px #aaa"><table style="border-spacing:0;width:15em"><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"> 1990 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">203,298</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+1.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 1995 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">206,718</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+1.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2000 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">211,564</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+2.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2005 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">210,796</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−0.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2010 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">207,682</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb"> 2015 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">206,230</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−0.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px"> 2020 </th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">203,616</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.3%</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left">Matsue population statistics<sup id="cite_ref-zensus_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-zensus-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1034237262">.mw-parser-output .stack{box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .stack>div{margin:1px;overflow:hidden}@media all and (min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-left{float:left;clear:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-clear-right{float:right;clear:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .stack-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-left{float:left;clear:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-clear-right{float:right;clear:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-left{float:left;margin-right:1em}.mw-parser-output .stack-margin-right{float:right;margin-left:1em}}</style><div class="stack mw-stack stack-right"><div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/220px-seek%3D26-Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="28" data-mwtitle="Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8"" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.1080p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="1080p.vp9.webm" data-width="1920" data-height="1080" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="256" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm/Matsue_view_from_matsue_castle_-_2019_1_4.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>City view from <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Castle" title="Matsue Castle">Matsue Castle</a>, 2019</figcaption></figure></div></div> <p>Matsue is located within ancient <a href="/wiki/Izumo_Province" title="Izumo Province">Izumo Province</a> and there are many <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_site" title="Archaeological site">archaeological sites</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Yayoi_period" title="Yayoi period">Yayoi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kofun_period" title="Kofun period">Kofuns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nara_period" title="Nara period">Nara periods</a> within the city borders. The area was also the stronghold of the <a href="/wiki/Amago_clan" title="Amago clan">Amago clan</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Sengoku_period" title="Sengoku period">Sengoku period</a>. The present-day <a href="/wiki/J%C5%8Dkamachi" title="Jōkamachi">castle town</a> of Matsue was originally established by <a href="/wiki/Horio_Yoshiharu" title="Horio Yoshiharu">Horio Yoshiharu</a>, lord of the Matsue clan, when he built Matsue castle and planned the surrounding town over a five-year period from 1607 to 1611. Matsue continued to be the seat of <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Domain" title="Matsue Domain">Matsue Domain</a> under the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a> until the <a href="/wiki/Meiji_restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="Meiji restoration">Meiji restoration</a>. Horio Yoshiharu's son Tadauji died before his father, thus the province was inherited by his grandson Tadaharu. However, Tadaharu died childless so the province was passed on to the <a href="/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dgoku_clan" title="Kyōgoku clan"> Kyōgoku</a>. Kyōgoku Takatsugu served <a href="/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi" title="Toyotomi Hideyoshi">Toyotomi Hideyoshi</a>. Takatsugu's son Tadataka married the 4th daughter of Hidetada, Hatsu. He served in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Osaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Osaka">Battle of Osaka</a> and reportedly took 300 heads. In 1634, he received the province of Izumo, succeeding the childless Horio Tadaharu. During his rule he was instrumental in engineering projects that helped control the flow of the Hiikawa river. </p><p>In 1637, Tadataka also died childless and the domain passed to the <a href="/wiki/Matsudaira_clan" title="Matsudaira clan">Matsudaira clan</a>. Naomasa was the third son of <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_Hideyasu" class="mw-redirect" title="Tokugawa Hideyasu">Tokugawa Hideyasu</a>. Hideyasu, daimyō of <a href="/wiki/Echizen_Province" title="Echizen Province">Echizen Province</a>, himself was the second son of <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu" title="Tokugawa Ieyasu">Tokugawa Ieyasu</a>, making Naomasa the grandson of the first Tokugawa Shōgun. Naomasa made a name for himself fighting in the Battle of Osaka at the age of 14. He was daimyō of Ono in Echizen and later <a href="/wiki/Matsumoto_Domain" title="Matsumoto Domain">Matsumoto</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shinano_Province" title="Shinano Province">Shinano Province</a> before becoming the ruler of Izumo 1638. Unlike the previous rulers Naomasa had children and his heirs managed to keep Izumo for ten generations until the end of the <a href="/wiki/Edo_period" title="Edo period">Edo period</a>. Overall, ten Matsudaira <i>daimyō</i> ruled Matsue. The most famous after the first (Matsudaira Naomasa) is the seventh, <a href="/wiki/Matsudaira_Harusato" title="Matsudaira Harusato">Matsudaira Harusato</a>, more commonly referred to as Fumai (不昧公).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He revolutionized the administrative system of the Matsue clan which was in financial difficulties and put it back on its feet. He invested in <a href="/wiki/Mulberry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulberry">mulberry</a> bushes and promoted special foods like <i><a href="/wiki/Shijimi_(clam)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shijimi (clam)">shijimi</a></i> clams that were a delicacy in Matsue. Harusato was a great enthusiast of <a href="/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony" title="Japanese tea ceremony">Japanese tea ceremony</a>. Because his influence on <i><a href="/wiki/Wagashi" title="Wagashi">wagashi</a></i>, Japanese sweets for the tea ceremony from Matsue are famous, especially one called <i>wakakusa</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Municipal_timeline">Municipal timeline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Municipal timeline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>April 1, 1889: the city of Matsue was founded with the creation of the modern municipalities system</li> <li>March 31, 2005: Matsue absorbed the towns of <a href="/wiki/Kashima,_Shimane" title="Kashima, Shimane">Kashima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mihonoseki,_Shimane" title="Mihonoseki, Shimane">Mihonoseki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shimane,_Shimane" title="Shimane, Shimane">Shimane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shinji,_Shimane" title="Shinji, Shimane">Shinji</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tamayu,_Shimane" title="Tamayu, Shimane">Tamayu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yatsuka,_Shimane" title="Yatsuka, Shimane">Yatsuka</a>, and the village of <a href="/wiki/Yakumo,_Shimane" title="Yakumo, Shimane">Yakumo</a>, all from <a href="/wiki/Yatsuka_District,_Shimane" title="Yatsuka District, Shimane">Yatsuka District</a>, to create the new and expanded city of Matsue.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul><li>August 1, 2011: the town of <a href="/wiki/Higashiizumo,_Shimane" title="Higashiizumo, Shimane">Higashiizumo</a> (also from <a href="/wiki/Yatsuka_District,_Shimane" title="Yatsuka District, Shimane">Yatsuka District</a>) was merged into Matsue.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>April 1, 2018: Matsue became a <a href="/wiki/Core_cities_of_Japan" title="Core cities of Japan">Core city</a> with increased local autonomy</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue has a <a href="/wiki/Mayor-council" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor-council">mayor-council</a> form of government with a directly elected mayor and a <a href="/wiki/Unicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicameral">unicameral</a> city council of 34 members. Matsue conributes 11 members to the Shimane Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is part of the <a href="/wiki/Shimane_1st_district" title="Shimane 1st district">Shimane 1st district</a> of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Representatives of Japan">lower house</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Diet_of_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Diet of Japan">Diet of Japan</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue is a major regional commercial center and as one of the base cities of the <a href="/wiki/San%27in_region" title="San'in region">San'in region</a>, and along with Yonago, there are many head offices of companies operating in the San'in region. Agriculture, commercial fishing and tourism play major roles in the local economy; however, the city has only a small industrial base. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Universities_and_colleges">Universities and colleges</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Universities and colleges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue_College_of_Technology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matsue College of Technology (page does not exist)">Matsue College of Technology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shimane_University" title="Shimane University">Shimane University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Shimane_Junior_College" title="University of Shimane Junior College">University of Shimane Junior College</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_and_secondary_education">Primary and secondary education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Primary and secondary education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue has 33 public elementary school, 17 public junior high schools and one public high school operated by the city government, and seven public high schools operated by the Shimane Prefectural Board of Education. The prefecture operates five special education schools for the handicapped. There are also four private high schools. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railway">Railway</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Railway"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:JR_logo_(west).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/20px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/30px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/40px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="278" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/West_Japan_Railway_Company" title="West Japan Railway Company">JR West</a> (JR West) - <a href="/wiki/San%27in_Main_Line" title="San'in Main Line">San'in Main Line</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shinji_Station" title="Shinji Station">Shinji</a> - <a href="/wiki/Kimachi_Station" title="Kimachi Station">Kimachi</a> - <a href="/wiki/Tamatsukuri-Onsen_Station" title="Tamatsukuri-Onsen Station">Tamatsukuri-Onsen</a> - <a href="/wiki/Nogi_Station_(Shimane)" title="Nogi Station (Shimane)">Nogi</a> - <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Station" title="Matsue Station">Matsue</a> - <a href="/wiki/Higashi-Matsue_Station_(Shimane)" title="Higashi-Matsue Station (Shimane)">Higashi-Matsue</a> - <a href="/wiki/Iya_Station" title="Iya Station">Iya</a></li></ul> <p><span typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:JR_logo_(west).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/20px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/30px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/JR_logo_%28west%29.svg/40px-JR_logo_%28west%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="278" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/West_Japan_Railway_Company" title="West Japan Railway Company">JR West</a> (JR West) - <a href="/wiki/Kisuki_Line" title="Kisuki Line">Kisuki Line</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shinji_Station" title="Shinji Station">Shinji</a> - <a href="/wiki/Minami_Shinji_Station" title="Minami Shinji Station">Minami Shinji</a></li></ul> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bataden_Logo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bataden_Logo.png/20px-Bataden_Logo.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bataden_Logo.png/30px-Bataden_Logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Bataden_Logo.png/40px-Bataden_Logo.png 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3997" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Ichibata_Electric_Railway" title="Ichibata Electric Railway">Ichibata Electric Railway</a> (Bataden) - <a href="/wiki/Kita-Matsue_Line" title="Kita-Matsue Line">Kita-Matsue Line</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tsunomori_Station" title="Tsunomori Station">Tsunomori</a> - <a href="/wiki/Takanomiya_Station" title="Takanomiya Station">Takanomiya</a> - <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Vogel_Park_Station" title="Matsue Vogel Park Station">Matsue Vogel Park</a> - <a href="/wiki/Aikamachi_Station" title="Aikamachi Station">Aikamachi</a> - <a href="/wiki/Nagae_Station" title="Nagae Station">Nagae</a> - <a href="/wiki/Asahigaoka_Station_(Shimane)" title="Asahigaoka Station (Shimane)">Asahigaoka</a> - <a href="/wiki/Matsue_English_Garden_Mae_Station" title="Matsue English Garden Mae Station">Matsue English Garden Mae</a> - <a href="/wiki/Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen_Station" title="Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen Station">Matsue-Shinjiko-Onsen</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Highways">Highways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/JP_Expressway_E74.svg/25px-JP_Expressway_E74.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/JP_Expressway_E74.svg/38px-JP_Expressway_E74.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/JP_Expressway_E74.svg/50px-JP_Expressway_E74.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="791" data-file-height="436" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hamada_Expressway" title="Hamada Expressway">Hamada Expressway</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/JP_Expressway_E54.svg/25px-JP_Expressway_E54.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/JP_Expressway_E54.svg/38px-JP_Expressway_E54.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/JP_Expressway_E54.svg/50px-JP_Expressway_E54.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="791" data-file-height="436" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Matsue_Expressway" title="Matsue Expressway">Matsue Expressway</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg/25px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg/38px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg/50px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0009.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="435" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_National_Route_9" title="Japan National Route 9">National Route 9</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg/25px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg/38px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg/50px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0054.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="435" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_National_Route_54" title="Japan National Route 54">National Route 54</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg/25px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg/38px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg/50px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0431.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="435" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_National_Route_431" title="Japan National Route 431">National Route 431</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg/25px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg/38px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg/50px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0432.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="435" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_National_Route_432" title="Japan National Route 432">National Route 432</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg/25px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="24" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg/38px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg/50px-Japanese_National_Route_Sign_0485.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="435" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Japan_National_Route_485" title="Japan National Route 485">National Route 485</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_relations">International relations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: International relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Matsue's <a href="/wiki/Sister_cities" class="mw-redirect" title="Sister cities">sister cities</a> are:<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_friendship_cities">International friendship cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: International friendship cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, United States, 1990 (commenced)/1994 (official agreement)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Jilin_City" title="Jilin City">Jilin City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jilin" title="Jilin">Jilin</a>, China, 1995 (commenced)/1999 (official agreement)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/23px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/35px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Flag_of_South_Korea.svg/45px-Flag_of_South_Korea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Jinju" title="Jinju">Jinju</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Gyeongsang" class="mw-redirect" title="South Gyeongsang">South Gyeongsang</a>, South Korea, 1999 (official agreement)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hangzhou" title="Hangzhou">Hangzhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zhejiang" title="Zhejiang">Zhejiang</a>, China, 1994 (commenced)/2003 (official agreement)</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/China" title="China"><img alt="China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Sister cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cguchi,_Aichi" class="mw-redirect" title="Ōguchi, Aichi">Ōguchi, Aichi</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Onomichi,_Hiroshima" class="mw-redirect" title="Onomichi, Hiroshima">Onomichi, Hiroshima</a></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan"><img alt="Japan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Local attractions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gessh%C5%8D-ji" title="Gesshō-ji">Gesshō-ji</a>, a Buddhist temple known for its hydrangeas and large stone turtle.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Izumo_Kokubun-ji" title="Izumo Kokubun-ji">Izumo Kokubun-ji</a> ruins, a <a href="/wiki/Monuments_of_Japan" title="Monuments of Japan">National Historic Site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamosu_Jinja" class="mw-redirect" title="Kamosu Jinja">Kamosu Jinja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumano_Taisha" title="Kumano Taisha">Kumano Taisha</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Ichinomiya" title="Ichinomiya">ichinomiya</a></i> of Izumo Province</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn_Memorial_Museum" title="Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum">Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum</a>, dedicated to the author <a href="/wiki/Lafcadio_Hearn" title="Lafcadio Hearn">Lafcadio Hearn</a>, who taught in Matsue from 1890–1891. Throughout the city there are monuments and landmarks honouring Hearn.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matsue_Castle" title="Matsue Castle">Matsue Castle</a>, one of the 12 remaining original castles in Japan. It is the second largest, the third tallest and the sixth oldest. The castle grounds include a winding path through mixed forests of bamboo, shrubs and trees, many of which are very old and identified by species. Surrounding the grounds and the castle park is the old moat, "horikawa".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miho_Jinja" class="mw-redirect" title="Miho Jinja">Miho Jinja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sada_Jinja" class="mw-redirect" title="Sada Jinja">Sada Jinja</a> in Matsue is the home to Sada Shin Noh, a sacred dance comprising a series of purification rituals related to the changing of the rush mats within the shrine. The mats are held by dancers who then offer them to deities to sit upon. Diverse dance forms are performed on a stage in the shrine accompanied by singing, flute and drums. The performance art is transmitted from generation to generation by the community. In November 2011, Sada Shin Noh was inscribed on the <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a> <a href="/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Lists" title="UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists">Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shimane_Art_Museum" title="Shimane Art Museum">Shimane Art Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamatsukuri_Onsen" title="Tamatsukuri Onsen">Tamatsukuri Onsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanabe_Art_Museum" title="Tanabe Art Museum">Tanabe Art Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yaegaki_Shrine" title="Yaegaki Shrine">Yaegaki Jinja</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festivals">Festivals</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Festivals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Various traditional festivals are still held, such as Dōgyōretsu, a drum parade held annually on the third Sunday of October,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Hōranenya, one of Japan's top three boat festivals that is held only once every 10 years (most recently in May 2019).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people_from_Matsue">Notable people from Matsue</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Notable people from Matsue"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hiroyuki_Hosoda" title="Hiroyuki Hosoda">Hiroyuki Hosoda</a>, politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takashi_Nagai" title="Takashi Nagai">Takashi Nagai</a>, physician, Catholic writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kei_Nishikori" title="Kei Nishikori">Kei Nishikori</a> (b. 1989), tennis player, was born in Matsue.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wakatsuki_Reijir%C5%8D" title="Wakatsuki Reijirō">Wakatsuki Reijirō</a>, former Prime Minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shir%C5%8D_Sano" title="Shirō Sano">Shirō Sano</a>, actor</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matsue&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA600">"Matsue"</a> in <i>Japan Encyclopedia</i>, p. 617; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA127">"Chūgoku"</a> at p. 127.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/regional/shimane/matsue.html">"Matsue area"</a>; retrieved 2012-2-11.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Matsue-hp-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Matsue-hp_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.city.matsue.lg.jp/soshikikarasagasu/kenkofukushibu_kenkofukushisomuka/koreishafukushi_kaigo/1/986.html">"Matsue City official statistics"</a> (in Japanese). 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title="Chiyoda, Tokyo">Chiyoda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D,_Tokyo" title="Chūō, Tokyo">Chūō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edogawa,_Tokyo" title="Edogawa, Tokyo">Edogawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itabashi" title="Itabashi">Itabashi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katsushika" title="Katsushika">Katsushika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kita,_Tokyo" title="Kita, Tokyo">Kita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D" title="Kōtō">Kōtō</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meguro" title="Meguro">Meguro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minato,_Tokyo" title="Minato, Tokyo">Minato</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nakano,_Tokyo" title="Nakano, Tokyo">Nakano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nerima" title="Nerima">Nerima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cta,_Tokyo" title="Ōta, Tokyo">Ōta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Setagaya" title="Setagaya">Setagaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shibuya" title="Shibuya">Shibuya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinagawa" title="Shinagawa">Shinagawa</a></li> <li><a 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