The Great Edo Metropolis
Urban development in Edo / Edo no Taihen (great pivotal events of Edo) / Great-Edo MapComplete Map of Musashi province Painted by Hashimoto Gyokuran (Utagawa Sadahide) published in 1856 (Ansei 3) Tokyo Shiryō 0196-003-W
As Edo grew into Tokyo, and as time shifted from the Meiji, Taishō, Shōwa, and finally to the Heisei period, the cityscape changed greatly, yet the many meisho-e (paintings introducing famous spots) drawn in the Edo period communicate the past to us.