Edo period
From 1603 to 1868: the Tokugawa peace; the pilgrimage opens to everyone
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The Edo period (江戸時代) runs from 1603, when Tokugawa Ieyasu became shōgun in Edo (present-day Tōkyō), to 1868. Two and a half centuries of peace, during which travel was controlled but pilgrimages were allowed.
This is when the Shikoku pilgrimage took its present form: the diary of Chōzen (1653), the guide of Shinnen (1687) and his markers, the numbering of the 88 temples, hosts offering free lodging (zenkonyado), and the custom of o-settai. Farmers, merchants and village heads set out in turn and kept travel diaries.
It ends with the Meiji era and the separation of Shinto and Buddhism.
- In English
- From 1603 to 1868.
- Other spellings
- époque d’Edo · époque d'Edo · époque Edo · edo jidai · période Edo · 江戸時代
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