1Wooden merchant buildingsThese imagined wooden structures line a street layout that was likely redesigned during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's late 16th-century reconstruction of Kyoto to create rectangular blocks.Kyoto
2Wooden hand cartThe laborer pulling this imagined cart operates in a city that, despite the rise of Edo in 1603, continued to flourish as one of Japan's three major urban centers.Kyoto
3Traditional garmentsThe pedestrians wearing these imagined garments walked the streets of a city that had only recently recovered from extensive destruction during the Sengoku period's Ōnin War.Kyoto