text: Originally known as Edo ( meaning estuary ) , Tokyo was just a sleepy little village surrounded by marshland on the broad Kanto plain until the end of the 16th century , when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved here and made it the center of his vast domains .
  
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  Tokyo was once a small village called Edo , but rapidly grew in the 16th century when Tokugawa moved there .