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Views of Edo

 

Ted Bestor

Harvard University

 

Foreign Cultures 84, Tokyo

 

 

Edo-zu screens

 

A pair of screens in the collection of the National Museum of Japanese History, depicting Edo during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shōgun, Tokugawa Iemitsu

 

The 12 panels of this pair of screens can each be magnified, and small portions of each screen can be displayed as very detailed photographs with information about the sites depicted

 

Edobashi

 

Model of Edobashi (Edo Bridge) crossing the Sumida River from Hirokoji, in the collection of the National Museum of Japanese History.