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- to enhance the city's defense against fires. Fire barrier zones called hiyokechi (火除地, fire protection zones) and hirokōji (広小路, wide alleys) were set...
- required dividing groups of blocks from each other with wide streets called hiyokechi [ja] and hirokoji [ja] that protected the rest of Edo from the spread...