Edo

Edo

江戸 (えど)
Edo 江戸 (えど)
Former city
	Folding screen view of Edo in the 17th century, showing Edo Castle on the upper right corner
	Location of the former city of Edo
	Coordinates: 35°41′02″N 139°46′28″E / 35.68389°N 139.77444°E
Country	Japan
Province	Musashi
Edo Castle built	1457
Capital of Japan (De facto)	1603
Renamed Tokyo	1868
Government
• Type of leader	Feudal government
Population (1721)
• Total	1,000,000

Edo (Japanese: 江戸, lit. '"bay-entrance" or "estuary"'), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.^[2]

Edo, formerly a jōkamachi (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the de facto capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo grew to become one of the largest cities in the world under the Tokugawa.

After the Meiji Restoration in 1868 the Meiji government renamed Edo as Tokyo (東京, "Eastern Capital") and relocated the Emperor from the historic capital of Kyoto to the city. The era of Tokugawa rule in Japan from 1603 to 1868 is known as the Edo period.

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^ US Department of State. (1906). A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759; excerpt, "The Mikado, on assuming the exercise of power at Yedo, changed the name of the city to Tokio".

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[2] US Department of State. (1906). A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759; excerpt, "The Mikado, on assuming the exercise of power at Yedo, changed the name of the city to Tokio".

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