Edo
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Old name of Tokyo, referring especially the area around the Edo castle (the current Chiyoda ward).
The Tokugawa Shogunate was located in Edo during the Edo period. Due to the presence of the government, daimyo mansions, and the sankin kôtai system, it was a very samurai-heavy city. Commoner spaces occupied a mere one-fifth of the urban area.[1]
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- J-wikipedia Edo
- ↑ Conant, Ellen (ed.). Nihonga: Transcending the Past. The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995. p16.
