The grandest Castle: this year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and the start, in this periodization [1], of the Edo period (1603-1867). In the fourth article of his series tracing vestiges of the epoch, David Capel visits Edo Castle.(Echoes Of Edo (IV))

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LOVE it or loathe it, Tokyo as the place that has become one of the world's great cities owes its existence to a single individual. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who gave his name to a shogunate, did not actually found Edo, the name by which Tokyo was known until 1868. But after he acquired the Kanto Plain, the region around Japan's present-day capital, in a land-swap deal, he decided oil Edo as his new power base.

Edo then was nobody's idea of a future metropolis. It consisted of three fishing villages and a few scattered farms located in what was more or less a swamp. ...

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