eitai

Updated: July 7, 2026

Yet the result of these calamities was salutary. The Bakufu selected suitable situations for the residences of the daimyo, and issued a law requiring that the main thoroughfares must have a width of sixty feet and even the by-streets must not be narrower than from thirty to thirty-six feet. Moreover, three bridges, namely, the Ryogoku, the Eitai, and the Shin-o, were thrown across the Sumida.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era