(Received in April, 2012)
Tokyo was originally known as Edo, which means
"estuary". Its name was changed to Tokyo (Tōkyō: tō (east) + kyō
(capital)) when it became the imperial capital in 1868, in line with the
East Asian tradition of including the word capital ('京') in
the name of the capital city. During the early Meiji period, the city was also
called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same Chinese
characters representing "Tokyo". Some surviving official English
documents use the spelling "Tokei". However, this pronunciation is
now obsolete.
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