A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle ... “It is a groundbreaking discovery of the castle’s remains that we could have seen only in drawings or other records,” said an official ...

Stone walls from the Edo Castle, thought to be about 400-years ... the condition of soil on the structure, and drawings from the time. The field excavation survey was conducted from November ...

Seizing Edo, they rapidly built up their military presence in the southern Kanto Plain to such a point that, in 1180, Shigenaga, the second clan head, was asked by Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-99) to ...

Meanwhile, Edo Castle and the samurai residences were mostly situated on uplands on the eastern edge of the Musashino Plateau. There, potable water was equally hard to come by because the friable ...