The Japanese Edo era was splendid.

Edo period was the best big city in the world where 1.2 million people lived as for the population in 1800 in the Christian era.

London in 2nd place was 900,000 people, Paris in 3rd place was 600,000 people, and New York was 60,000 people.

The water fixture was also wonderful.

The well in the tenement house often seen in the television and the movie was a well where the quick water was drawn up from the hole that opened in the tube that was able to be done by the tree in woodwinds in the underground.

The Kanda river, the Inokashira pond, and Tamagawa, etc. threw in the tube of the tree by using the vertical interval for the head of a river like the river.

Water that fell in the drink was received by ship, carried to the region where the service of water was bad, and recycled.

The person of 60% of Edo at that time lived by this.

At that time, this water fixture that was able to use first grade of junior high-school Japan and China for one year was a no potato in the world.

It was water on in the week the third though there was only a water fixture also in London.  seven hourly wages a day

It was the cleanest big city in the world.

The excrement taken in "Chamber pot" was thrown away on the road in London and Paris

It was swept in drainage, drawn, it threw into the river, and the road was severe [nadobu] [gawa] to which only filth, River Thames here and there, and the Seine river gave out a foul stench.

(There is a description said that the river water was drawn from the ship in the houseboat of Sumidagawa until about beginning about the Meiji era and it brought the water to the boil. )

Excrement was valued by taking from the lavatory into consideration and dealings as the material of compost by large amount of money in Edo.

Therefore, it was few to make the road dirty.

It is when making to the earth before most flows into the river and having seen though what thrown into drainage is water of washing, and entertainment soup of rice.

Washing [hato] [i] neglected, was not used , soap expensively, and was used a good one for the environment such as the ashes and [mukuroji].

Moreover, the end puts to the field and the plant, and because it thoroughly uses as watering etc. and the spent thing was a lot of, seems to be far less than present ages the amounts, too by using the water used to wash and to cook for the wipe cleaning.

It seems to have marveled at cleanness of the people in Edo where it put on the kimono often washed though the foreigner who knew London and Paris was clean in the town in Edo and was taken often, and coarse.

The height of the school attendance rate of the elementary education by the private school was exceptionally at that time best in the world.

The school attendance rate of Edo of about 1850 is presumed to be 70?85% though puts in the farm village part.

20?25% in great industry To City in Britain in about 1837 compared with it. The school attendance rate of 10?16 years old was 1.4% though the elementary education was made an obligation in France after the revolution in 1793. It was 20% in Russia by 1920.

Moreover, the post of the Ministry of Education seems by the shogunate a system that can do naturally among the people than saying it not is, and making following the plan of the government.

It seems to have been an ideal individual guidance matched at the level of not a uniform education like the present age but one person.

In addition, there were an officer of the law and only 24 person this mind that hit a present policeman in this big city that exceeded one million surprisingly.

It searched for Edo where such a system that outed to lunch had continued for tens of 200 years now since the contemporary society had caused the system failure everywhere from three themes.