Giny@geenrotzooi_xs4all.nl wrote:
>
> I know it was not at the Shoguns order, but it seems so strange that the
> Emperor moved from the dignified old capital Kyoto to Edo,a merchant city
> and moves into the palace of the shogun......
> I do not understand that the nobility accepted this or was Kyoto of no
> interest in those days and was it not seens a a step lower to move from the
> Imperial palace Kyoto into the palace used by the shogun?
>
You must remember that for several centuries Kyoto (and the emperor)
were really not in power at all. So after Meiji why move all of the
power structures back to Kyoto, when everything was firmly established
in Edo. At least that's how I figure. 

John W.