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Tokugawa Shogunate

Dark blue nineteenth-century Japanese fireman’s jacket with a circular golden ginger-plant crest below the collar

How Edo Fought Fire and Learned to Live with It

Edo’s firefighters pulled buildings apart to save streets. Their brigades, coats, and public reputation reveal how danger was shaped by work, rank, and inequality.

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