According to "Kaiyuroku" written by Sin Yu-han, a member of Chosen Tsushinshi (the Korean Emissary), the capital in Japan was first located in Yamato, and after that Hideoyoshi TOYOTOMI moved it to Osaka and then Ieyasu TOKUGAWA transferred it to Edo.
1719年の朝鮮通信使申維翰の『海遊録』によれば、都（首都）は初め大和にあり、その後豊臣秀吉が大坂に、徳川家康が江戸に移したと認識されていたという。