Example sentences for: edo

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

  • The displays include a full-scale reproduction of a nagaya (one of the long, single-story row houses typical of the Edo period).

  • First, the earthquake of 1923 and subsequent fire razed nearly all vestiges of old Edo, killing some 140,000 people in the process.

  • In the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, the canals were used to carry rice and grain in barges for onward shipment to the great markets of Osaka and Edo.

  • 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.

  • Merchants thronged to the large cities that were growing up around the castles at Edo (population already 1 million in the 18th century), Osaka (400,000), and Nagoya and Kanazawa (each 100,000) — all huge in comparison with European cities of the time.


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