Example sentences for: edo

How can you use “edo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Edo period extended from the end of the civil wars of the 16 th century (the source of all samurai films) and the consolidation of power under the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, to the Meiji Restoration, when Japan adopted something resembling a parliamentary monarchy under the emperor.

  • Here, designers have reproduced a miniature version of all the major landscape features along the old Tokaido Highway between Kyoto and Edo — including, of course, a small artificial version of Mt.

  • This arrangement called for constant traveling, and these travels to and from Edo were carried out with a good deal of pomp and circumstance.

  • By 1868, when Edo was renamed Tokyo, the dream was shattered, and Japan began the hard work of entering the modern world.

  • Edo expanded rapidly to accommodate Ieyasu’s 80,000 retainers and their families and the myriad common people who served their daily needs.


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