Talk:Great Fire of Meireki
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Potential Sources[edit]
Tradereddy (talk) 20:30, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Laundry lists of links are useless. Provide some context, especially since those are patently not actually reliable sources and can only be used as guidance for finding something more useful. — LlywelynII 16:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Blizzard[edit]
In Volume 27 Issue 1 of the Keio Economic Studies journal, Robert Evans Jr authored a text called "Economic Growth and Fires: The Case of Japan" in which, following the abstract, he opens:
- "In January, 1657, a great fire swept Ede (Tokyo) for two days. The Meireki Fire, also known as the Great Furisode Fire, in combination with a severe blizzard immediately afterward caused the deaths of more than 100,000 people."
It might be worthwhile to try and dig deeper into that blizzard and just how big a role it played -- this seems like something that should likely be mentioned in under the Aftermath heading. Kwrusch (talk) 18:45, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
Minor point[edit]
But the passage that previously stated without sourcing
- and like most of those in mainland East Asia
was utter nonsense. Chinese construction has used wood, stone, and masonry—not wood and paper—throughout the modern period. — LlywelynII 16:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)