Great Fire of Meireki
Event · March 1657 · Japan, Japan
The fire of 1657 that destroyed much of Edo; it was rebuilt at once, with large open spaces planned against another such disaster1. Mason 2005, p. 274. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.