Daily Life in Edo, the City of a Million: Bathhouses, Fires and Kabuki | History for Sleep

Fall asleep in old Tokyo. Tonight we wander through everyday life in Edo Japan, the city of the shoguns: dawn bells, wooden row houses, water for a million people, street food, bathhouses, fires, samurai clerks, merchants, farmers, the Tokaido road, kabuki, fireworks, cherry blossoms, and finally a quiet night over the city. Calm, slow narration for sleep, insomnia, relaxing, or studying. After the story ends, about 40 minutes of soft ambient sound continue, so nothing wakes you. Chapters 0:00 Welcome 0:33 Waking Up in Edo 6:56 A Home in the Nagaya 12:45 Water for a Million People 18:55 What You Ate 25:07 The Public Bath 31:31 When Edo Burned 38:16 The Life of a Samurai Clerk 44:39 Merchants and Their Ledgers 50:57 A Year on the Farm 57:29 Walking the Tokaido 1:04:02 Craftsmen of the City 1:10:33 A Night at the Kabuki 1:17:14 Learning to Read at the Terakoya 1:23:24 Festivals and Fireworks 1:29:51 Cherry Blossoms and Changing Seasons 1:36:10 Night Falls Over Edo 1:42:32 Ambient only, no narration About Moonscroll History Gentle, boring history to fall asleep to. Facts are based on well-established history; where historians disagree, the story says so. Subscribe so the next sleep story is easy to find tonight. Narration is synthetic voice. Artwork: public-domain woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido), via Wikimedia Commons. #boringhistoryforsleep #historyforsleep #sleepstory #edojapan #japanesehistory #moonscrollhistory