From Edo to Tokyo
時代背景
In 1868, following negotiations between the new imperial government's forces and the old shogunate, Edo Castle was surrendered without a battle — an event known as the bloodless surrender of Edo Castle. That same year, Edo was renamed Tokyo, and the capital was moved there from Kyoto. The former Edo Castle became the Imperial Palace, and the castle Dokan had built and Ieyasu had inherited was entrusted with a new role at the center of a new era. A little over fifty years later, in 1920, Meiji Jingu was founded in Shibuya to enshrine Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. Edo did not disappear — a new city, Tokyo, was layered on top of it. Beneath the streets of Tokyo we walk today lies more than 500 years of history, one era stacked upon another.
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