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Welcome to Edo - Edomatsu - Virtual Tour

For most people in Japan, Edo is more than just a historical city. It also has a symbolic image and meaning. It represents nearly everything that they consider a part of their "traditional" culture.
source : www.us-japan.org/edomatsu

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東京今昔物語 Tokyo Konjaku Monogatari
by 東京都不動産鑑定士協会 (編集)

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Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan
- source : pinktentacle.com...
- more of his EDO monsters information
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Arasan Ukiyoe Blog くずし字見ながら歴史散歩
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Asian Education
. Culture and Lifestyle in Japan .


Edo Daisetsuyō Kainaigura 江戸大節用海内蔵 An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Common Knowledge in the Edo Period - source : wul.waseda.ac.jp ... -

. Edo no gaidobukku 江戸のガイドブック Guidebooks for Edo .


そうだったの？江戸時代 - very extensive resource
- source : mag.japaaan.com/archives -

Edo gaishoku bunka
- source : park11.wakwak.com/~kitai...

Edo Period 1603 – 1868 - Long Essay about many aspects of the time
- source : doyouknowjapan.com... -

Edo Sansaku 江戸散策　- walking in Edo
- source : cleanup.jp/life/edo... -

Bunka Digital Library 文化デジタルライブラリ
- source : ntj.jac.go.jp/dglib/modules ... -

Edo Tokyo Digital Museum - Tokyo Metropolitan Library -
with a huge database of woodblock prints
- source : www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals
- - - Edo Tokyo Database / Great-Edo Database - This database searches for and displays the Edo and Tokyo related documents on this site by document type and keyword.
- source : www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/Portals/0/edo/tokyo_library/english
- - - Great-Edo Database - category and keyword search:
Great-Edo Entertainment / Great-Edo Style / Great-Edo Culture /
A Visit in the Great Edo / The Great Edo Metropolis / Saijiki / Edo
Games
- source : library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals -

Edo Guide 江戸ガイド
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Edo Tokyo Museum, Sumidaku, Tokyo
. . . a facility to preserve the historical heritage of Edo-Tokyo.
- source : www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp

Exploring Old Tokyo Areas and Food
... to let you explore and discover old Tokyo, in particular the areas associated with shitamachi.
- source : old-tokyo.info/category -

Fiorillo John Fiorillo
Viewing Japanese Prints

fuuryuu 風流江戸川柳 Furyu Edo senryu
- source : www.geocities.jp/kinomemocho

Jackson Terrence
Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution

featuring on the life of Ōtsuki Gentaku, a doctor, and Rangaku
source with comment : uhpress.hawaii

Kasuga Kazuo 春日和夫
. 江戸・東京88の謎 88 mysteries about Edo / Tokyo .

The Kidai Shōran Scroll: Tokyo Street Life in the Edo Period

Kobayashi 小林祥次郎
. 遊びの語源と博物誌 . - vocabulary

Kokkei doke anmon ― Writing summer greetings to a thunder god
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Kowner, Rotem Kowner
From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735
- source : www.academia.edu - - to download


Nihombashi - History of Nihombashi
The story of Edo culture

Nanchiku 南竹c　Nanchiku-c
江戸時代の絵画、書、和歌、俳句、古文書 - very extensive resource !
- source : eonet.ne.jp/~yohi-


National Diet Library
With a monthly newsletter of translations, including many illustrations
- source : ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter... -

. Onagi Zenko 小名木善行 - Nihon no sugoi himitsu .


Ooedo no kagaku 大江戸の科学　　TBA
- source : www.gakken.co.jp/kagakusouken


Soothill - William Edward Soothill
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (very long file)
http://mahajana.net/texts/kopia_lokalna/soothill-hodous.html

Tamar Avishai
Art in Isolation: The Delicate Paintings of Edo Japan
(Online during the Covid-19 epidemic 2020 worldwide)
- source : web-japan.org/tokyo -


Tokyo Sanpo 東京散歩インデックス (long list)
- source : guiter.cocolog-nifty.com/bare... -


Ukiyoe - Ukiyo-e Prints Reflect the Popular Culture of Edo
- source : nippon.com/en -


Yamashita Kazuhisa 山下和久
woodblock prints of summer - long list
- source : kazuhisa.eco.coocan.jp/summer
..... ukiyo-e 浮世絵　- source : kazuhisa.eco.coocan.jp/ukiyoe.htm


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. Edogaku Jiten 江戸学事典 Dictionary of Edo .

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Downer, Lesley

The Shogun’s Queen
by Lesley Downer (Bantam)
the life of Okatsu, a young woman who grows up to be the Shogun’s Queen.

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Heine, Steven
Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods.
Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life

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大江戸神仙伝シリーズ - Oedo series
大江戸えころじ－事情 Sustainability in EDO
- and many more
. Ishikawa Eisuke Ishikawa 石川英輔 .

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. An Edo Anthology:
Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850 .
Table of Contents
Editor: Jones, Sumie; Watanabe, Kenji - University of Hawaii Press

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The Edo Inheritance
by Tokugawa Tsunenari

In 2007, Tsunenari published a book entitled Edo no idenshi (江戸の遺伝子), released in English in 2009 as The Edo Inheritance, which seeks to counter the common belief among Japanese that the Edo period (throughout which members of his Tokugawa clan ruled Japan as Shoguns) was like a dark age, when Japan, cut off from the world, fell behind.
On the contrary, he argues, the roughly 250 years of peace and relative prosperity saw great economic reforms, the growth of a sophisticated urban culture, and the development of the most urbanized society on the planet.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Buyo Inshi　武陽隠士 - 世事見聞録
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption:
An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
. Buyo Inshi　武陽隠士 .

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Education in Edo
浸透する教養 / 鈴木健一 (編集)

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Nagatomo Chiyoji 長友 千代治
Onna Chōhōki - Otoko Chōhōki - Choho-Ki
女重宝記・男重宝記 ― 元禄若者心得集
Encyclopedia for Women and Men of the Genroku Period
published by Gendai Kyōyō Bunko (現代教養文庫) 文庫, 1993/11

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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
by Charles J. Dunn (Author), Laurence Broderick (Author)



Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan.
With detailed descriptions
and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, courtiers, priests, entertainers and outcasts come to life in this magnificently illustrated portrait of a colorful society. Most works of Japanese history fail to provide enough details about the lives of the people who lived during the time. The level of detail in Everyday Life in Traditional Japan allows for a more complete picture of the history of Japan.

In fascinating detail,
Charles J. Dunn, describes how each class lived: their food, clothing, and houses; their their beliefs and their fears. At the same time he takes account of certain important groups that fell outside the formal class structure, such as the courtiers in the emperor's palace at Kyoto, the Shinto and Buddhist priests, and the other extreme, the actors and the outcasts. he concludes with a lively account of everyday life in the capital city of Edo, the present–day Tokyo.
- source - amazon com -


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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology
Jinnai Hidenobu
"It was a particular pleasure to discover "Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology, for Jinnai's book is precisely a guide to Tokyo-literacy. By this, I do not mean that it is a conventional guidebook. . . . Rather, it is a book about the historical and social logic of Tokyo: a compelling exploration of the reasons why the city acquired is present shape. . . . "Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology is very obviously a labor of love; its style overflows with enthusiasm at the wonders to the city. . . . An original, readable, and fascinating book."
--Tessa Morris-Suzuki, "Journal of Asian Studies
"The sheer physical extent of Tokyo, its mile upon mile of high-density and mostly low-rise development, seemingly without topographic or maritime memory, makes it a difficult city for many Westerners to understand. We suspect that the same may be so for many Japanese. Jinnai Hidenobu shows us how today's Tokyo is rooted in its early development and how today's streets, waterways, land uses, and building types come from a past that remains visible to those who would care to look. One needs to walk or to row with Jinnai to see how yesterday makes today. His is a work of love that ties generations together in their physical environment."
--Allan B. Jacobs, author of Great Streets - at amazon com

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Tokyo: City Of Stories
Paul Waley
Of all the world's great cities, Tokyo remains one of the least well known. Paul Waley calls forth the stories sleeping behind the glass and chrome of today's fast-paced metropolis and conjures the traces of Tokyo past overlapping Tokyo present.
Paul Waley is a scholar of Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

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Pitelka Morgan Pitelka
Spectacular Accumulation:
Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

In Spectacular Accumulation , Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu, or "famous objects," exchanging hostages, collecting heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls "spectacular accumulation," which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity.
Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of "art" within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority, demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it.
Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence, including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices.
Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.
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Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan
Roberts, Luke S.

Performing the Great Peace offers a cultural approach to understanding the politics of the Tokugawa period, at the same time deconstructing some of the assumptions of modern national historiographies. Deploying the political terms uchi (inside), omote (ritual interface), and naisho (informal negotiation)—all commonly used in the Tokugawa period—Luke Roberts explores how daimyo and the Tokugawa government understood political relations and managed politics in terms of spatial autonomy, ritual submission, and informal negotiation.

Roberts suggests as well that a layered hierarchy of omote and uchi relations strongly influenced politics down to the village and household level, a method that clarifies many seeming anomalies in the Tokugawa order. He analyzes in one chapter how the identities of daimyo and domains differed according to whether they were facing the Tokugawa or speaking to members of the domain and daimyo household: For example, a large domain might be identified as a“country” by insiders and as a “private territory” in external discourse. In another chapter he investigates the common occurrence of daimyo who remained formally alive to the government months or even years after they had died in order that inheritance issues could be managed peacefully within their households. The operation of the court system in boundary disputes is analyzed as are the “illegal” enshrinements of daimyo inside domains that were sometimes used to construct forms of domain-state Shinto.

Performing the Great Peace’s convincing analyses and insightful conceptual framework will benefit historians of not only the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, but Japan in general and others seeking innovative approaches to premodern history.
- source : www.uhpress.hawaii.edu -

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Screech Timon
Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

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Japanese Illustrated Books



The Discovery of Japanese Illustrated Books in Europe and the United States
- source : Matthi Forrer -

Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods (1600-1912)
The Freer | Sackler Library of the Smithsonian Libraries have completed digitizing over 1100 volumes/41500 images from its collection of illustrated Japanese woodblock-printed books and manuscripts from the Edo and Meiji periods (1600-1912).
- source : blog.library.si.edu/2017 -



Obtaining Images: Art, Production, and Display in Edo Japan
Screech, Timon

The Edo period (1603–1868) witnessed one of the great flowerings of Japanese art. Towards the mid-seventeenth century, the Japanese states were largely at peace, and rapid urbanization, a rise in literacy and an increase in international contact ensued. The number of those able to purchase luxury goods, or who felt their social position necessitated owning them, soared. Painters and artists flourished and the late seventeenth century also saw a rise in the importance of printmaking. There were dominant styles and trends throughout Japan, but also those peculiar to specifc regions, such as the Kanto (Edo) and the Kamigata (Osaka and Kyoto) and, more remotely, Nagasaki.
- uhpress hawaii


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Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868
Singer, Robert T., Carpenter, John T.

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Book 江戸の性 / 中江克己 Nakae Katsumi
江戸の町なかに各種の性の見世物が軒をつらね、性具や秘薬の専門店も繁盛していた。長命丸という強精薬を売っていた両国薬研堀の「四つ目屋」では、他方への通信販売も行なっていた。密通が盛んで、男と女が密会する場所として出合茶屋が急増し、隅田川近くの船宿が利用された。性の快楽を求める欲求が強まり、閨房術への関心が高まった。廓や岡場所が栄え、おびただしい数の好色本や春画が出版され、性文化が花開いた江戸時代の性事情を活写する。

［目次］
第１章　性を楽しむ（江戸にもあったポルノショップ
湯女風呂の生態　ほか）
第２章　結婚と密通（介添女と仲人
不自由な武士の結婚
密会は出合茶屋で
「夜這い」という婚前交渉
「三くだり半」は再婚の許可書
人妻の情事と首代）
第３章　性欲と性愛術（貝原益軒が説く性交回数
女の性欲は灰になるまで　ほか）
第４章　大奥の性（新参者の裸踊り
将軍の不自由な性生活　ほか）
第５章　この人物の意外な性生活（宮本武蔵と遊女雲井
貝原益軒の「神聖な儀式」　ほか）

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Urbanowicz Mateusz
Tokyo Storefronts

- source and more photos : mateuszurbanowicz.com/works. misegamae ... -

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Williams, Duncan Ryuken Williams
. The Other Side of Zen:
A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan .

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Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan
Edited by Luke Gartlan, Roberta Wue // Routledge, 2017
- source : routledge.com/Portraiture-and-Early-Studio-Photography -

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Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
日本史用語翻訳グロッサリー・データベース
digitalgallery/glossary ...

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