THE HOUSING OF TOKYO AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEIJI ERA : The urban space of Edo and Tokyo in the transition from early modern ages to modern times (2)

One of the most important particularities of the Japanese early modern ages' city, its city type is called Jokamachi, is that the utility of estate and the plan of building depended on the people's rank system of the Tokugawa Shogunate. So, after the Meiji Restoration, the remarkable trans-figuration and disorganization occured on the urban space of Tokyo. At the beginning of Meiji Era, although the parts of Tokyo, for example the form of dwelling, still had similarities with the Edo period's one, the city system which organized the parts had been gradually turning to another one.