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Japan. The Stone Quarries for Edo Castle (江戸城石垣石丁場跡, Edojō Ishigaki ishichōba ato) are the remnants of stone quarries used to provide the massive amount of stone necessary to construct the extensive moats and defensive fortifications of Edo Castle under the Tokugawa shogunate in 17th century Japan. These sites are located in ...
Himeji Castle is associated with a number of local legends. The well-known kaidan (or Japanese ghost story) of Banchō Sarayashiki (番町皿屋敷, "The Dish Mansion at Banchō") is set in Edo (Tokyo), but a variant called Banshū Sarayashiki (播州皿屋敷, "The Dish mansion in Harima Province") is set in Himeji Castle.
Edo Castle [note 1] is a castle built on a flatland in the year 1457. It was built by Ōta Dōkan. It is part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It was restored by Tokugawa leyasu. [1] It was destroyed by fire many times.
Fall of Edo. The Fall of Edo ( Japanese: 江戸開城, Hepburn: Edo Kaijō), also known as Edojō Akewatashi (江戸城明け渡し, Evacuation of Edo Castle) and Edo Muketsu Kaijō (江戸無血開城, Bloodless Opening of Edo Castle), took place in May and July 1868, when the Japanese capital of Edo (modern Tokyo ), controlled by the Tokugawa ...
Nagoya Castle. / 35.18556°N 136.89861°E / 35.18556; 136.89861. Nagoya Castle (名古屋城, Nagoya-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan . Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period.
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
Edo consequently rapidly grew from what had been a small, virtually unknown fishing village in 1457 to a big city of 1,000,000 residents by 1721, the largest city in the world at the time. [2] In 1868, when the shogunate came to an end, the city was renamed Tokyo , meaning "eastern capital", and the emperor moved his residence to Tokyo, making the city the formal capital of Japan.
