At that time, there were less than ten cities around the world with a population of 200,000, even the newly formed Edo was just a district of government offices where lines of samurai residences stood. |
当時、世界に20万都市は10もなく、できたばかりの江戸も単に武家屋敷の立ち並ぶ官庁街にすぎない。 |