Editing Tokyo (section)

==== Early modern (1407–1868) ====
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| header            = Extant pre-17th century structures in Tokyo
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The oldest known extant building in Tokyo is [[Shōfuku-ji (Higashimurayama)|Shofukuji]] in [[Higashimurayama, Tokyo|Higashi-Murayama]]. The current building was constructed in 1407, during the [[Muromachi period]] (1336–1573).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jizodo at Shofuku-ji Temple {{!}} July 2020 {{!}} Highlighting Japan |url=https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202007/202007_13_en.html |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=www.gov-online.go.jp |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205051812/https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202007/202007_13_en.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Although greatly reduced in number by later fires, earthquakes, and air raids, a considerable number of Edo-era buildings survive to this day. The [[Tokyo Imperial Palace]], which was occupied by the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa Shogunate]] as [[Edo Castle]] during the [[Edo period|Edo Period]] (1603–1868), has many gates and towers dating from that era, although the main palace buildings and the [[Tenshu|tenshu tower]] have been lost.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former Edo Castle |url=https://www.env.go.jp/garden/kokyogaien/english/former_edo_castle.html |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=The National Environmental Research and Training Institute(NGP) |language=en |archive-date=June 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621162436/https://www.env.go.jp/garden/kokyogaien/english/former_edo_castle.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Numerous temple and shrine buildings in Tokyo date from this era: the [[Ueno Tōshō-gū|Ueno Toshogu]] still maintains the original 1651 building built by the third shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu|Iemitsu Tokugawa]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ueno Toshogu Website |url=https://www.uenotoshogu.com/en/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=上野東照宮公式ホームページ |language=en |archive-date=February 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214142549/https://www.uenotoshogu.com/en/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although partially destroyed during the Second World War, [[Zōjō-ji|Zojo-ji]], which houses the Tokugawa family mausoleum, still has grand Edo-era buildings such as the Sangedatsu gate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=大本山 増上寺 |url=https://www.zojoji.or.jp/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=www.zojoji.or.jp |language=ja |archive-date=June 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621120940/https://www.zojoji.or.jp/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Kan'ei-ji|Kaneiji]] has grand 17th-century buildings such as the five-storey pagoda and the Shimizudo. The [[Nezu Shrine]] and [[Gokoku-ji|Gokokuji]] were built by the fifth shogun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi|Tsunayoshi Tokugawa]] in the late 1600s. All feudal lords ([[daimyo]]) had large Edo houses where they stayed when in Edo; at one point, these houses amounted to half the total area of Edo.<ref>{{Cite web |last=香原斗志 |date=2021-07-13 |title=五輪で世界の目が集まる東京に残る、訪れるべき江戸の名建築、私的ベストテン──東京でみつける江戸 最終回 |url=https://www.gqjapan.jp/lifestyle/article/20210713-edo-30 |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=GQ JAPAN |language=ja-JP |archive-date=June 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240621162451/https://www.gqjapan.jp/lifestyle/article/20210713-edo-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> None of the grand Edo-era daimyo houses still exist in Tokyo, as their vast land footprint made them easy targets for redevelopment programs for modernization during the [[Meiji era|Meiji Period]]. Some gardens were immune from such fates and are today open to the public; [[Hama-rikyū Gardens|Hamarikyu]] ([[Kōfu Domain|Kofu Tokugawa family]]), [[Kyū Shiba Rikyū Garden|Shibarikyu]] ([[Kishū Tokugawa family|Kishu Tokugawa family]]), [[Koishikawa-Kōrakuen|Koishikawa Korakuen]] ([[Mito Tokugawa family]]), [[Rikugi-en Gardens|Rikugien]] ([[Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu|Yanagisawa family]]), and [[Higo Hosokawa Garden]] ([[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa family]]). The [[Akamon (Tokyo)|Akamon]], which is now widely seen as a symbol of the [[University of Tokyo]], was originally built to commemorate the marriage of a shogun's daughter into the [[Maeda clan]], one of the most affluent of the feudal lords, while the campus itself occupies their former edo estate.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The University of Tokyo |url=https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/whyutokyo/hongo_hi_007.html |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=The University of Tokyo |language=en |archive-date=July 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724235353/https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/whyutokyo/hongo_hi_007.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{wide image|Edo Panorama old Tokyo color photochrom.jpg|1200px|Edo, 1865 or 1866. [[Photochrom]] print. Five albumen prints joined to form a panorama. Photographer: [[Felice Beato]].}}