🏯 What was daily life really like in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) in the year 1700? Follow a family of carpenters from dawn until night inside a nagaya, a tiny tenement house of barely 10 square meters, in the most populous city on the planet.
In this AI-powered historical reconstruction, you will discover:
🔔 How the city woke up at the Hour of the Hare
🏠 What a nagaya looked like inside: tatami, doma, futon and the household altar
🍚 What people ate: polished rice, miso soup, dried fish and the world's biggest street food scene
🛁 How they bathed in public bathhouses and why Edo was cleaner than many European capitals
💩 The most surprising fact: why neighbors' waste was a valuable commodity
🔥 The constant fear of fire and the Great Fire of 1657
🐕 The shogun's strict laws protecting dogs
🎭 Edo at night: kabuki, ukiyo-e prints and ghost stories
🌍 The link to the outside world through Nagasaki and Dutch traders
📚 This recreation is based on period engravings, chronicles, neighborhood records and historical and archaeological studies, with narrative license. Visuals and narration were created with the help of artificial intelligence.
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