Tokyo: Culture, Society, and History

Ted Bestor, Harvard University

bestor@wjh.harvard.edu

Historical topics

• Tokugawa Dynasty – Genealogy, Maps, Facts, and Figures

• The Tokaidō: Past and Present – not yet posted

• Great Disasters of Edo and Tokyo

• MacArthur’s Tokyo: The Occupation (1945-52)

• Tokyo Olympics, 1964

• Views of Edo

• Edo Castle

• Ukiyo-e woodblock prints

• Japanese historical cartography

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