[Machine Translation] Tobiyo Mitamura, known as "the founder of Edo studies," "one of the three most famous Edo scholars," and "the last town scholar," left behind a wide-ranging and diverse study of Edo culture and customs. This book, compiled in encyclopedia form by historical archaeologist Fumio Inagaki, focuses on the culture and customs of the merchant class. This long-awaited reprint of the basic book on Edo period research contains approximately 30000 entries.