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Hirogenki-kun

ひろげんき君

Registered organizationHiro Community Development Promotion Council

Added to this catalog November 21, 2013

Hirogenki-kun
CHARACTER FACTS

Meet Hirogenki-kun

Hirogenki-kun is a mascot listed in our Japanese character catalog for Kure City, Hiroshima.

Registered area
Kure City, Hiroshima
Registered organization
Hiro Community Development Promotion Council

From the recorded profile

This is a translation of the source description. Dates, affiliations and plans refer to the source’s publication context, not a guarantee of current activity.

Hiro community development promotion character. Hirogenki-kun is a boy fairy of Hiro kanran, known as the phantom cabbage. He tells children the story of Hiro kanran, the cabbage that saved Hiro, Kure City, after it was struck by a typhoon and storm surge in 1884 and suffered salt damage and famine. Apparently the character Hiro in Hirogenki-kun is expressed somewhere on his body...

English translation of the source profile. Names are display translations, not necessarily official English names. Original Japanese names are retained for identification; check official sources for current activity.

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