Originally on the northern fringes of the city of Edo, the Asakusa area surrounding the Sensōji Temple grew to become an important site not just of devotion but also of consumption. The areas north of Sensōji also became important places for other modes of consumption and leisure after the relocation of the city's main licensed quarter and theater district from the Nihonbashi area in the mid seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, respectively.

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