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*''Japanese'': 門前町 ''(monzenmachi)''
''Monzenmachi'', or, literally "gate-front towns," were towns and cities which grew up around major Buddhist and Shintô sites, especially in the [[Edo period]]. The term stands in contrast to ''[[jokamachi|jôkamachi]]'', or castle towns.
==References==
*Moriya, Katsuhisa. Ronald Toby (trans.) "Urban Networks and Information Networks." in Chie Nakane and Shinzaburô Ôishi (eds.) ''Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press, 1990. p103.
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
''Monzenmachi'', or, literally "gate-front towns," were towns and cities which grew up around major Buddhist and Shintô sites, especially in the [[Edo period]]. The term stands in contrast to ''[[jokamachi|jôkamachi]]'', or castle towns.
==References==
*Moriya, Katsuhisa. Ronald Toby (trans.) "Urban Networks and Information Networks." in Chie Nakane and Shinzaburô Ôishi (eds.) ''Tokugawa Japan: The Social and Economic Antecedents of Modern Japan''. University of Tokyo Press, 1990. p103.
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]