Edo, formerly a jōkamachi (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the de facto capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo grew to become one of the largest cities in the world under the Tokugawa.

The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.

Map of the Sea and Land Routes from Edo to Nagasaki. Presented here is a pictorial route map, published in 1672 (early Edo period), that depicts the journey from Edo (present-day Tokyo) to Nagasaki. The first volume shows the land route from Edo to Kyōto.

This map represents the author’s reconciliation between contemporary geography and Buddhist culture, which persisted in Japan during the Edo, against European, Neo-Confucian and Nativist cosmologies.

Mar 24, 2011 · English: This extraordinary item is a hand colored Tokugawa Period woodcut map of Edo, or Tokyo, Japan. Impressive size and detail. Produced in the mid 19th century Japanese woodcut style, this map is a rare combination of practical and decorative. Ships and waves decorate the harbor and there is no specific directional orientation.

A s Edo grew into Tokyo, and as time shifted from the Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa, and finally to the Heisei period, the cityscape changed greatly, yet the many meisho-e (paintings introducing famous spots) drawn in the Edo period communicate the past to us.

Jul 9, 2020 · Edo Kiriezu, roughly translated as ‘cut-in-pieces map of Edo’, is a distinctive map of the premodern city, representing the perception of urban space. Edo Kiriezu shares the historical Japanese cartographic conception with anken-zu maps (anken stands for …

Jan 16, 2025 · Discover Japan in 1603 through a map of major clans and their emblems at the start of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Learn how Japan transitioned from a fragmented state to a unified nation under the Tokugawa rule.

Jul 7, 2022 · In this post, we will explore maps of the capital of Japan, Tokyo, during the Tokugawa period. As these woodcut maps are over 160 years old, when you read them, you may notice there is some damage probably caused by insects.

The city where you live and the places you have walked: what is their landscape? Search for the town you live in or towns you have been to in Tokyo on the map to see what they looked like during the Edo period.You can select a point on the map to …