Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of EDO

by Timon Screech

Book Overview

A rich and original history of Edo, the shogun's city that became modern Tokyo.

Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture--but not everyone is aware of its past. Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called Edo, was the locus of Japanese trade, economics, and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and became Japan's modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178914955X
• ISBN13: 9781789149555
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.7" x 8.7"