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In Edo ( today's Tokyo ) there also lived Shikano Buzaemon ( 1649 – 99 ) who wrote the Shikano Buzaemon kudenbanashi ( Oral Instruction Discourses of Shikano Buzaemon ) and the Shika no makifude ( The Deer's Brush, 1686 ), a work containing 39 stories, eleven of which are about the kabuki milieu.
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It has had prototypes since ancient times, and it is said that Shichirin roughly the same as today's were made in the Edo period.
Although Hachiōji only gained city status on September 1, 1917, it has been an important junction point and post-town along the Kōshū Highway, the main road that connected the historical Edo ( today's Tokyo ) with Western Japan since medieval times, especially during the Edo period.
Today the sushi dish internationally known as " sushi " ( nigirizushi ; Kantō variety ) is a fast food invented by Hanaya Yohei ( 華屋与兵衛 ; 1799 – 1858 ) at the end of Edo period in today's Tokyo ( Edo ).
Hanaya Yohei ( 華屋 与兵衛 or 花屋 與兵衛 ; 1799 – 1858 ) is generally credited as the inventor of today's Tokyo-style ( Edomae-zushi ; 江戸前寿司 ) nigiri sushi ( hand-formed sushi ) at the end of Japan's Edo period.
The term Shinto started to be used with today's meaning of kami worship only later during the Edo Period.
The area was named after the 17th century Dutch adventurer Jan Joosten, who, for his services to Tokugawa Ieyasu, was granted a house in Edo ( today's Tokyo ).
Edo and Tokyo
The area was just out of Sujikai-gomon city gate ( present Mansei bridge ) which was one of the city gates ( Mitsuke ) of old Edo ( Tokyo ).
Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Imperial Palace has been called " Kyūjō " ( 宮城 ), then Kōkyo ( 皇居 ), and located on the former site of Edo Castle in the heart of Tokyo.
Between 1600 and 1945, Edo / Tokyo was leveled every 25 – 50 years or so by fire, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions or war.
* Keiō 4: On the 17th day of the 7th month ( September 3, 1868 ), Edo was renamed Tokyo.
* Meiji 2: On the 23rd day of the 10th month ( 1868 ), the emperor went to Tokyo and Edo castle became an imperial palace.
Edo, the City that Became Tokyo: An Illustrated History.
* 1703 – In Edo ( now Tokyo ), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
However, during the Edo period, Edo ( now Tokyo ) developed into the largest city in Japan, and Edo Tokyo dialect became the Standard Japanese position.
Kitagawa Ichitarō ( later Utamaro ) was born either in Edo ( present-day Tokyo ), Kyoto, or Osaka, or in a provincial town, in 1753.
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.
The original nori was formed as a paste, and the sheet form was invented in Asakusa, Edo ( contemporary Tokyo ), in the Edo period through the method of Japanese paper-making.
There was a striking contrast with Japan, where Edo ( Tokyo ) had as many as 1 million inhabitants and the urban population comprised as much as 10 % to 15 % of the total during the Tokugawa Period ( 1600 – 1868 ).
By the mid 18th century, this form of sushi had reached Edo ( contemporary Tokyo ).
Originally, this sushi was known as Edomae zushi because it used freshly caught fish in the Edo-mae ( Edo Bay or Tokyo Bay ).
Tokugawa Ieyasu seized power and established a government at Edo ( now known as Tokyo ) in 1600.
* September 3 – The Emperor Meiji of Japan announces that the name of the city of Edo is to be changed to Tokyo.
* Edo Castle is built by Ōta Dōkan in what is now Tokyo.
The art form rose to great popularity in the metropolitan culture of Edo ( Tokyo ) during the second half of the 17th century, originating with the single-color works of Hishikawa Moronobu in the 1670s.
Edo and there
During the Edo period there were about 100 fires ( most begun by accident, often quickly escalating and spreading through neighbourhoods of wooden machiya which were heated with charcoal fires.
Another long-standing tradition asserts that he was born in Yoshiwara, the courtesan district of Edo, being the son of a tea-house owner, but there is no evidence of this.
Apparently, Art Historians faces the facts that there are no contemporary documents to help them certify his date of birth, birthplace, and family background – there have been theories and these are the most accepted – he was born in 1753, probably Edo, and his father was an owner of a Tea-house.
In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka.
Ginza is named after the silver-coin mint established there in 1612 during the Edo period.
Hartmut O. Rotermond, author of Demonic Affliction or Contagious Disease ?, describes that in Edo and surrounding cities, there were many outbreaks of measles and smallpox.
At the beginning of the Edo period ( 1603 – 1867 ), there were two types of baths common to the eastern and western regions of Japan respectively.
Seeing through the fake letter Fukuzawa planned to travel to Edo and continue his studies there because he knew he would not be able to in his home domain, Nakatsu, but upon his return to Osaka, his brother persuaded him to stay and enroll at the Tekijuku school run by physician and rangaku scholar Ogata Kōan.
In 1858, he was appointed official Dutch teacher of his family's domain, Nakatsu, and was sent to Edo to teach the family's vassals there.
He journeyed from Nagasaki to Osaka, to Kyoto, and there to Edo.
A collection of edicts released daily, known as the told the populace, inter alia, to protect dogs, since in Edo there were many stray and diseased dogs walking around the city.
In 1695, there were so many dogs that Edo began to smell horribly.
Kawagoe was 10Ri ( about 40 km ) from Nihonbashi in the old part of Edo and there were six juku along the way, namely: Kamiitabashi, Shimonerima, Shirako, Hizaori, Owada, and Oi.
Shirako juku was 20 km from the capital of Edo and travellers often stopped there for lunch.
Itabashi was one of the Four Edo Post Towns, and travellers first lodged there after leaving the shogunal capital.
One day, there was a fire in Edo castle and Ōoku was also damaged.
During the Edo period ( about 1603-1867 ), when Japan was closed to most trade, there developed both fine dollmakers and a market of wealthy individuals who would pay for the most beautiful doll sets for display in their homes or as valuable gifts.
In Edo period, there were Samegai-juku and Banba-juku.
According to the present form of the tale ( dating to the Edo period ), Momotarō came to Earth inside a giant peach, which was found floating down a river by an old, childless woman who was washing clothes there.
The Japanese government was shocked and throughout the city of Edo there was a heavy commotion.
During the Edo period there were about 130 families of dōjō kuge.
Kaempfer stayed two years in Japan, during which time he twice visited Edo and the Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi there.
Japanese gardens during the Heian Period were modeled upon Chinese gardens, but by the Edo Period there were distinct differences.
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