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The ''tenshu'' (main tower keep) of Edo castle, the tallest ever built in Japan, was among the notable buildings lost in the fire. It was never rebuilt.<ref>Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 92.</ref>
The ''tenshu'' (main tower keep) of Edo castle, the tallest ever built in Japan, was among the notable buildings lost in the fire. It was never rebuilt.<ref>Christine Guth, ''Art of Edo Japan'', Yale University Press (1996), 92.</ref>
==Details==
Fire first broke out shortly after noon (late in the [[Telling Time|Hour of the Horse]] or early in the Hour of the Sheep) on 1657/1/18 at Honmyô-ji temple in the Hongô Maruyama area, in the northern portion of the city. Northwesterly winds changed to westerly winds around dusk (in the Hour of the Rooster). The fire spread south and east, destroying much of the eastern side of the city, including the [[Nihonbashi]] area, before being finally brought under control during the Hour of the Ox, after midnight.<ref name=edotokyo>Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/46301311485/sizes/h/]</ref>
Fire broke out again prior to noon that next day (1/19, late in the Hour of the Snake, early in the Hour of the Horse) at an Ôban yorikata lodging in the Koishikawa Shintakajô-machi neighborhood, not far from the origin of the first fire. This fire spread south and east, through [[Edo castle|the shogun's castle]], into the eastern portion of the city before being finally brought under control around dusk (in the Hour of the Rooster), shortly after another fire broke out in the Kôjimachi 5-chôme neighborhood, to the west of the castle. As northwesterly winds shifted to westerly winds, this third fire raged until mid-morning the following day (1/20), burning through much of the southern portion of the city, before being finally brought under control.<ref name=edotokyo/>
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