Edo (present-day Tokyo) was the most populous city in the world in the mid-19th century.

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This section of Edo (today’s Tokyo) was built on reclaimed land—thus the high embankment.

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Beato album courtesy of Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Museum of Art.

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