Editing Tokyo (section)

==Etymology==
{{Infobox Chinese
| title = Tokyo
| pic = Tokyo (Chinese characters).svg
| piccap = ''Tōkyō'' in ''[[kanji]]''
| picupright = 0.4
| katakana = トウキョウ
| hiragana = とうきょう
| l = "Eastern Capital"
| revhep = Tōkyō
| kunrei = Tôkyô
| kanji = 東京
}}

{{anchor|idEtymology}} Tokyo was originally known as {{Nihongo4|[[Edo (Tokyo)|Edo]]|[[wikt:江戸|江戸]]}}, a [[kanji]] compound of [[wikt:江|江]] (''e'', "cove, inlet") and [[wikt:戸|戸]] (''to'', "entrance, gate, door").<ref name=naruto-san>Room, Adrian. ''Placenames of the World''. McFarland & Company (1996), [https://books.google.com/books?id=PzIer-wYbnQC&pg=PA360 p. 360] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101181808/https://books.google.com/books?id=PzIer-wYbnQC&pg=PA360&sig=X75YRM_z45rzt4ZcemXMFhn9uWs |date=January 1, 2016 }}. {{ISBN|0-7864-1814-1}}.</ref> The name, which can be translated as "[[estuary]]", is a reference to the original settlement's location at the meeting of the [[Sumida River]] and [[Tokyo Bay]]. During the [[Meiji Restoration]] in 1868, the name of the city was changed to {{Nihongo|Tokyo|[[wikt:東京|東京]]||extra=from {{Nihongo2|[[wikt:東|東]]}} ''tō'' "east", and {{Nihongo2|[[wikt:京|京]]}} ''kyō'' "capital"}}, when it became the new imperial capital,<ref>US Department of State. (1906). [https://archive.org/details/digestofinternat07mooriala/page/751 ''A digest of international law as in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements'' (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Volume 5, p. 759] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101181808/https://books.google.com/books?id=dKCOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA751&dq= |date=January 1, 2016}}; excerpt, "The Mikado, on assuming the exercise of power at Yedo, changed the name of the city to Tokio".</ref> in line with the East Asian tradition of including the word capital ({{Nihongo2|京}}) in the name of the capital city (for example, [[Kyoto]] ({{Nihongo2|京都}}), [[Keijō]] ({{Nihongo2|京城}}), [[Beijing]] ({{Nihongo2|北京}}), [[Nanjing]] ({{Nihongo2|南京}}), and [[Xijing (disambiguation)|Xijing]]<!--intentional link to DAB page--> ({{Nihongo2|西京}})).<ref name="naruto-san" /> During the early [[Meiji period]], the city was sometimes called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same characters representing "Tokyo", making it a [[kanji homograph]]. Some surviving official English documents use the spelling "Tokei";<ref name="Tōkei">{{cite book |title=Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo |author1=Fiévé, Nicolas |author2=Paul Waley |name-list-style=amp |year=2003 |page=253 }}</ref> however, this pronunciation is now obsolete.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.soumu.metro.tokyo.jp/01soumu/archives/0715tokei.htm |script-title=ja:明治東京異聞～トウケイかトウキョウか～東京の読み方 |publisher=Tokyo Metropolitan Archives |date=2004 |access-date=September 13, 2008 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006151436/http://www.soumu.metro.tokyo.jp/01soumu/archives/0715tokei.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>