Example sentences for: edo

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

  • 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.


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