Example sentences for: edo

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

  • In the pleasure quarter of Edo, the feudal divisions between commoners and nobility broke down, and this "floating world" gave birth to new and vigorous forms of popular entertainment.

  • 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.

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

  • The Edo show includes the woodblock print depicting an angular courtesan (by Keisai Eisen) that Vincent van Gogh used as the basis for his own painting ( The Courtesan , 1887), now on view in the van Gogh show elsewhere in the National Gallery.

  • Loyalty was further enforced by holding the vassals’ wives and children hostage in Edo.


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