From April 29th, NHK Special started a new series "Oedo". "Edo, the largest Lost City in Japanese history, disappeared 150 years ago in 1868. I draw the unknown figure in a variety of productions, including documentaries, 4KCG, and drama expressions," (NHK website).
Of the three sessions, the theme of the first (April 29) is "World's largest! ! It was the "city of water" built by Samurai. Based on the recently discovered drawings depicting urban planning in the early Edo period and photographic negatives of late Tokugawa shogunate, he revealed that Edo was "a unique city that was built using water and was unique to the world."
As is well known, Chuo-ku is "the first Edo", so drawing "the capital of water, Edo" almost overlaps with the original form of "the former town of water, Chuo-ku, Tokyo". From the Chuo-ku Board of Education Chuo-ku Local Tenmonkan, "The History of Chuo-ku, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the constituency system-development after the war and changes in towns-" (October 2017), from page 10, "Reclaiming post-war reconstruction rivers" , Page 14 states "Maintenance by the Tokyo Olympics and Reclaiming rivers". On page 10, the reclamation of rivers since the reconstruction of the earthquake is summarized on a map, but it can be seen at a glance that many rivers in Chuo-ku have been reclaimed by the earthquake reconstruction, the war reconstruction, and the Tokyo Olympics. .
