November 02, 2016

EDO - Happyaku yacho town districts

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.jp/2013/02/merchants-of-edo.html

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Edo no Happyaku Yachoo 江戸の八百八町 Happyaku yacho - 808 towns of Edo
A phrase used to indicate the size of Edo with its many districts.
there were more 300 bridges in Edo, mostly build by the bakufu government.
For the situation in Osaka, see below.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu started building the city of Edo, there were about 300 "towns", districts.
They are now called the 古町 Old Towns.
During the great fire in 1641, about 97 of these were lost.
In 1657 there were about 674 町 CHO under the supervision of the Machi Bugyo Governor.
In 1713, they counted for 933.
In 1745, they counted for 1678 !


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