ASIN: B00M28O9SM
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 44
*Includes pictures*Chronicles the history of Tokyo over the last several centuries*Includes accounts of what the city was like across the years*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contentsAfter a series of conflicts among feudal lords, the new city of Edo became and remained Japan’s beating heart, and in the 17th century, Edo gave birth to a vibrant new urban culture marked by woodblock prints, the kabuki theater, and haiku poetry. By the 18th century, with its ranks swelled thanks to a flood of provincial daimyo, along with their households, clients, and retainers, Edo had become the most populous urban area in the world, a title Tokyo still can lay claim to today. In the latter 19th and 20th centuries, after the Tokugawa bakufu was overthrown by a modernizing and reforming central government under the Meiji emperor, Edo was renamed Tokyo and became Japan’s ...
