When political and military center of Japan was moved to Edo under the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Kantō region grew in prominence, Edo dialect took the place of Kansai dialect.

Dōkan is best known as the architect and builder of Edo Castle ( now the Imperial Palace ) in what is today modern Tokyo ; and he is considered the founder of the castle town which grew up around that Ōnin era fortress.

In the Edo era, it was an inn-town on the Nakasendō ( 中山道 ), and grew during this period.

During the Edo period, Ise was a popular destination for pilgrimages which were called " o-Ise-mairi " ( literally, " Coming to Ise ") and thus these settlements grew larger and developed into small villages.

Industry began to flourish in Uma during the Edo period, and the city grew as a port town.

The production of the noodles grew during the reign of Edo Period ( 1603-1868 ) because more and more farming families started getting into the trade.

As the visibility and popularity of falconry grew, at the beginning of the Edo period, images of the hunt, of mews, of wild birds of prey, and even portraits of favored individual birds were increasingly commissioned.

In the Edo period, Esashi grew wealthy as a herring fishing town.

It was the gateway from inner Edo to northern and northwestern Japan and Kan ’ ei-ji temple in Ueno.

Edo period advertising flyer from 1806 for a traditional medicine called Kinseitan

These came from Buddhist beliefs ; the classical Chinese elements (, go gyô ) are also prominent in Japanese culture, especially to the influential Neo-Confucianists during the Edo period.

An exception is deep fried types of preparation was introduced during the Edo Period due to influence from Western foods ( once called and Chinese foods, and became commonplace with the availability of oil due to increased productivity.

Engraving from the Edo period depicting forge scenes.

The name of the Edo period derives from the relocation of the Tokugawa regime from its former home in Kyoto to the city of Edo, present-day Tokyo.

* 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

: a gift from Edo

Another legend has it that the name comes from the fact that six daimyo lived nearby during the Edo period, each with the kanji character for " tree " or a kind of tree in their names.

This tendency was kept during this period, but in the late Edo period waka faced new trends from beyond the court.

* March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

Ukiyo-e can be categorized into two periods: the Edo period, which comprises ukiyo-e from its origins in the 1620s until about 1867, when the Meiji period began, lasting until 1912.

" His ukiyo-e transformed the art form from a style of portraiture focused on the courtesans and actors popular during the Edo Period in Japan's cities into a much broader style of art that focused on landscapes, plants, and animals.

The Japanese Shogun Tokugawa initiated the Edo Period, an isolationist period where Japan cut itself off from the world as a whole.

These fabulous notions have stemmed from popular imagination regarding the ninja's mysterious status, as well as romantic ideas found in later Japanese art of the Edo period.

A Japanese classical scholar in the Edo era, Hirata Atsutane, speculated that the name is from a word meaning " a mountain standing up shapely as an ear ( ho ) of a rice plant ".

Mugai ryu was once one of the more famous styles in Japan in the Edo period and was developed from a strong influence of Zen.

It is different from the Edo period styles primarily in that all techniques are performed from a standing position.

Among later visual artists who depicted Triglav, the most known are Anton Karinger ( 1829 – 1870 ) from Ljubljana, Marko Pernhart ( 1824 – 1871 ) from Klagenfurt, Valentin Hodnik ( 1896 – 1935 ) from Stara Fužina, Edo Deržaj ( 1904 – 1980 ) from Ljubljana, and recently Marjan Zaletel ( born 1945 ), living in Ljubljana.

In later Japanese feudal history, during the Sengoku and Edo periods, certain high-ranking warriors of what became the ruling class would wear their sword tachi-style ( edge-downward ), rather than with the saya ( scabbard ) thrust through the belt with the edge upward.

During the Edo period, the Yoshiwara licensed quarter was in what is now Taitō.

* Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in what is now Tokyo.

Records of the word funoyaki occurs as far back as the 16th century, and Sen no Rikyū writes about it, but what it really was can only be speculated, and may have involve the use of fu ( wheat gluten ), though certainly by the late Edo Period funoyaki referred to a thin crepe baked on a cooking pot, with miso basted on one side.

The Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto passed through what is now Chigasaki, but without a post station.

* 1603 ( Keichō 8 ): Tokugawa Ieyasu became Shogun, which effectively begins what will be known as the Edo bakufu.

Dōkan's 15th century poetic description of what was once just a fortified hill on the Sumida River near Edo Bay would become the basis for metropolitan Tokyo Governor Ryokichi Minobe's 1971 re-election slogan: " Give Tokyo back its blue sky!

The Yoshiwara was created in the city of Edo, located near what is today known as Nihonbashi, near the start of the busy Tōkaidō that leads to western Kyoto in western Japan.

Yorikata decided that he could not rely on conservative Confucianists like Arai Hakuseki in Edo and did what he could to stabilize the Kii domain.

The is a section of a street lined with traditional warehouses constructed in a style called and maintains the old outlook of what the place was like during the Edo period.

The Tamagawa Josui, an artificial waterway completed in 1653 to divert water from the Tama River and carry it as drinking water to Edo, begins in what is now part of Hamura.

The construction of Edo Castle by Ōta Dōkan, a vassal of Uesugi Mochitomo, began in 1457 during the Muromachi period in what is now the East Garden of the Imperial Palace.

The young boy went on to become the first legitimate ruler of the second Edo dynasty that has ruled what is now Benin from that day to this.

On June 12, the New York Times reported that Japan's first diplomatic mission to the West received the news about what had happened in Edo.

The warrior Edo Shigetsugu built his residence in what is now the Honmaru and Ninomaru part of Edo Castle, around the end of the Heian or the beginning of the Kamakura period.

All of what is now Minato Ward was part of the holdings of Owari Domain during the Edo period.

After Ieyasu completed Edo Castle, he turned site of Odawara Castle over to one of his senior retainer, Ōkubo Tadayo, who reconstructed the castle in its present form on a considerably reduced scale, with the entire castle fitting inside what was the third bailey of the original Late Hōjō castle.

Until the end of Edo period, local kami beliefs and Buddhism were intimately connected in what was called shinbutsu shūgō ( 神仏習合 ), up to the point that even the same buildings were used as both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.

* 1603 ( Keichō 8 ): Tokugawa Ieyasu became Shogun, which effectively becomes the beginning of what will become the Edo bakufu.

Ōtsuki Fumihiko was born in the section of Edo in what is now part of Ginza, Tokyo.

On the day of his death, he drew his sword and attempted to kill Kira in the Corridor of the Pines at Edo Castle in what is now Tokyo.

Until the end of Edo period, local kami beliefs and Buddhism were intimately connected in what was called shinbutsu shūgō ( 神仏習合 ), up to the point that even the same buildings were used as both Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples.