What the records say
- When
- 2 Mar 1657 – 5 Mar 1657
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 35.74° N, 139.74° E
- Description
- conflagration
- Deaths
- 100000
7 sources record it
- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo, Japan, destroys most of the city and damages Edo Castle, killing an estimated 100,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Büyük Meireki Yangını: Japonya'nın başkenti Edo'da çıkan yangın 3 gün boyunca kenti etkisi altına aldı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Meireki-Großbrand in Edo in Japan kommen rund 100.000 Menschen ums Leben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Japon : grand incendie d'Edo (Tokyo), dit « Grand incendie de Meireki »”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “3月初——日本江戶發生明曆大火，死傷人數超過10萬人。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “明暦の大火発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page