Short History of Tokyo
Short History of Tokyo Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "Eastern Capital," has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Earlier still, in the Middle Ages, it was Edojuku, an outpost…
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Short History of Tokyo
Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "Eastern Capital," has only enjoyed that name and status for 150 years. Earlier still, in the Middle Ages, it was Edojuku, an outpost overlooking farmlands. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, the city that is now Tokyo was a sprawling fishing town by the bay named Edo.
He illuminates the Tokyo of the twentieth century with its destruction and redevelopment, boom and bust without forgoing the thousand years of history that have led to the Eastern Capital as we know it. And thousands of years ago, its mudflats and marshes were home to elephants, deer, and marine life.In this compact history, Jonathan Clements traces Tokyo's fascinating story from the first forest clearances and the samurai wars to the hedonistic "floating world" of the last years of the Shogunate. Tokyo is so entwined with the history of Japan that it can be hard
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