In short, Edo is the old name forTokyo, the capital city of Japan. There was Edo Castle around the current Tokyo Station, and the town prospered around this castle. It also refers to theEdo period, about 400 years ago. The Edo period, sometimes also referred to as theTokugawa period, ...
I have never heard anyone say EE-doh (though obviously I have never been to JWB’s teppanyaki steak house), and I seriously doubt there is now a standard anglicized pronunciation of the historical Japanese city name to which I should defer. If I’m wrong and everyone but me says EE-...
and also as one of Japan's traditional crafts in 2002. At the Japan-US summit in April 2014, the former president of the USA, Barack Obama, was presented with a set of Edo Kiriko glassware. This shows that the Tokyo-localEdo Kiriko...
So when I saw her standing there looking as beautiful as a summer morning I really did think that she might be the former. I walked up and said hello. She just kept beaming that smile and sort of nodded. Maybe she was as dazed as I was. Probably, though, she just hadn’t heard ...
In 1603, the seat of government was installed in Edo (present-day Tokyo ) making this former small fishing village the shogunal capital and the center of political power, even if Kyoto remained the imperial capital until 1868. From 1615, the shogun managed to monopolize all powers and spheres...
Honjo Matsuzaka-cho Park, located just east of the Eko-in Temple, is a local park which is famously known as the Former Residence of Lord Kira (the antagonist in the story of the Forty-seven Ronin). It is a small park of about 100 sq.m., and the elaborate design of the walls and...
I have rendered Chaya-machi literally as “area of teahouses,” though in other regions of the city, such as spots before the Kaminari Gate of Sensōji (Map 10), at Yanaka (Map 2), or at Kōjimachi (Map 2), “Chaya-machi” was a proper name. Other books also speak of a “Chaya-...