Crossword-Solution: YEDO 4 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

They provided me with carriages and servants, and bore my charges to Yedo; where I was admitted to an audience, and delivered my letter, which was opened with great ceremony, and explained to the Emperor by an interpreter, who then gave me notice, by his majesty’s order, “that I should signify my request, and, whatever it were, it should be granted, for the sake of his royal brother of Luggnagg.” This interpreter was a person employed to transact affairs with the Hollanders.

The “beaten tracks,” with the exception of Nikkô, have been dismissed in a few sentences, but where their features have undergone marked changes within a few years, as in the case of Tôkiyô (Yedo), they have been sketched more or less slightly.

Fears—Travelling Equipments—Passports—Coolie Costume—A 32–42 Yedo Diorama—Rice—Fields—Tea-Houses—A Traveller’s Reception—The Inn at Kasukabé—Lack of Privacy—A Concourse of Noises—A Nocturnal Alarm—A Vision of Policemen—A Budget from Yedo LETTER VI.—(_Continued_.) A Coolie falls ill—Peasant Costume—Varieties in 43–50 Threshing—The Tochigi _Yadoya_—Farming Villages—A Beautiful Region—An _In Memoriam_ Avenue—A Doll’s Street—Nikkô—The Journey’s End—Coolie Kindliness LETTER VII.

EIGHTEEN days of unintermitted rolling over “desolate rainy seas” brought the “City of Tokio” early yesterday morning to Cape King, and by noon we were steaming up the Gulf of Yedo, quite near the shore.

Yedo belongs to the old régime and the Shôgunate, Tôkiyô to the new régime and the Restoration, with their history of ten years.