Ieyasu Enters Edo
歴史事件
In 1590, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi crushed the Hojo clan in the Siege of Odawara, he ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu to relocate from his home provinces of Mikawa and Totomi to the Kanto region. Rather than Kamakura or Odawara, Ieyasu chose Edo — then home to little more than the old castle Dokan had built generations earlier — as his new base. Ieyasu undertook a massive expansion of Edo Castle, and when he was appointed shogun in 1603, Edo became, in name and in fact, the political center of the shogunate. With the sankin-kotai system requiring domain lords from across the country to maintain residences in Edo, the city's population grew rapidly, and by the 18th century Edo had become one of the largest cities in the world, with a population exceeding one million.
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