This advance of the fleet convinced the Shogun that Perry meant to go to Yedo.
In Japan, a revolution, the city of Yedo destroyed by the insurgents.
Little is known of his life except that he began as a bookseller in Yedo.
Born in 1742, he worked as a young man for a bookseller in Yedo.
The people of Yedo erected memorial-stone lanterns at his tomb.
As they neared Yedo, they left him, faint and weary, on the roadside.
In Yedo we were too far away from the political centre to learn much.
It was with this purpose that the fleet in question had entered the Bay of Yedo.
For over two centuries the daimios had been forced to reside in Yedo.
This act was fatal to the glory of Yedo and the power of its sovereign lord.