Samurai City

Other: Urban History(worksinprogress.co)view on HackerNews
Tokugawa Edourban historysamuraidaimyosocial controlpopulation monitoring

Author: zdw

Date: 6/2/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the unique social and urban structure of Tokugawa Edo, a city in Japan that existed from 1600 to 1868, and how it was designed to control and monitor the population, particularly the samurai and daimyo classes.