江戸
alternative words: Tokyo
keywords:
locality
related topics:
Tokugawa Ieyasu
,
Edo period
,
Shogun
related web sites:
http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp
,
http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~tamio-enomoto/
,
http://www.gojyaku.com/tabi/edo/edo-top.htm
explanation: Located at the bottom of Tokyo bay and mouths of many rivers, Edo had been a privileged place of human activities such as temple town Asakusa and Edo castle built by Oota Doukan in 1457. But the real growth of Edo began with the arrival of Tokugawa Ieyasu to Edo in 1590 and his nomination to shogun in 1603. Each seigniors being forced to stay at Edo every 2 years, it became quickly a great consumer city of 1 million population. Edo changed its name to Tokyo in 1868.
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