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Edo in the seventeenth century: aspects of urban development in a segregated society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2000
Abstract
Seventeenth-century Edo was a city built by and for the shogun. The immense concentration of power in the shogun imposed stability in the city, and this made it unnecessary for the authorities to interfere directly in the city's general administration and economic affairs. Even given the overwhelming power of the shogun, however, the city did not develop a distinct culture at that stage.
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