Zeze - Zeze

A district of Otsu City in southern Shiga Prefecture. Formerly known as Zeze Town. The name is said to come from Omonohama Beach, where food was offered to the Otsu Palace in ancient times. During the Edo period, it was a castle town of the Honda clan's Zeze Domain, which had a fief of 60,000 koku, and the ruins of Zeze Castle, a water castle built by Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara, have been turned into a park. The castle gate from that time remains at the front gate of Zeze Shrine (a national important cultural property), and the townscape retains traces of the castle town, but new urban facilities have been constructed around JR Tokaido Main Line Zeze Station, Keihan Zeze Station, and on reclaimed land on the lake shore.

[Seiichi Takahashi]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

滋賀県南部、大津市の一地区。旧膳所町。地名は、古代に大津宮への食物を供した陪膳浜(おもののはま)に由来すると伝えられる。江戸時代は本多氏の膳所藩6万石の城下町で、関ヶ原の戦いのあと徳川家康が築かせた水城の膳所城跡は公園になっている。当時の城門が膳所神社表門（国の重要文化財）などに残り、町並みに城下町の名残(なごり)をとどめるが、JR東海道本線膳所駅、京阪膳所駅周辺や湖岸の埋立地には新しい都市的施設が建設されている。

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