THE FORMATION AND SIGNIFICANCE OF KAKUNAI AND KAKUGAI : The urban space of Edo and Tokyo in the transition from early modern ages to modern times (5)

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  • 「郭内」・「郭外」の設定経緯とその意義 : 近世近代移行期における江戸,東京の都市空間(その5)
  • カクナイ カクガイ ノ セッテイ ケイイ ト ソノ イギ キンセイ キンダイ イコウキ ニ オケル エド トウキョウ ノ トシ クウカン ソノ 5

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The collapse of the Tokugawa regime was attended by sudden filling out of samurai estates (bukechi) which had occupied large areas of urban land in early modem Japan. Tokyo felt this effect particularly strongly. The New Government overcame this crisis by dividing the city into two domains - the kakunai (inner) and kakugai (outer) areas. The bukechi of the kakunai formed the initial structure for the filling-in of new elements. The extents of these domains were repeatedly modified by the new govern- ment until Meiji 2 (1869), when Tokyo was decided upon as being the Imperial capital. These processes were significant in the process by which Edo became Tokyo, and formed the foundation of a continuing "dual structure" in the urban space of Tokyo.

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