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| | Ashikaga travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | The clan also sponsored the Ashikaga Gakkō, the most famous Confucian academy of eastern Japan, and Ashikaga has a friendship city relationship with Jining, China, which includes Qufu, the hometown of Confucius. |
 | | Tōbu Ashikaga-shi station is on the south bank of the Watarase River, in the rapidly expanding south side of town, with strip malls, big-box retailers, and ample parking. |
 | | On the south edge of the park is the small Sōun Museum [11], housing landscape and nature paintings by the Ashikaga clan's official artist, Tazaki Sōun (1815-1898) [12], who exhibited his depiction of Mount Fuji at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. |
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