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Example sentences for: edo
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To the south is the residence of the Abbot — by tradition an imperial prince — with a particularly fine garden in the style of the Edo period.
Art --"Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868" (National Gallery of Art, Washington);
In many ways the city has never recovered from Hideyoshi’s subsequent decision to move the national capital from Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo) in the early 1600s — a blow compounded by the young Emperor Meiji shifting the imperial household to Tokyo in 1868.
These were also halcyon days for the classic noh theater, the more popular kabuki, and the puppet theater (today’s bunraku) at Osaka, which was Japan’s cultural capital at a time when Edo had more politicians and soldiers than artists.
Edo expanded rapidly to accommodate Ieyasu’s 80,000 retainers and their families and the myriad common people who served their daily needs.