Example sentences for: meiji

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

  • This is a far cry from the assertive Emperor Meiji, whose radical social and political policies in the late-19th century launched Japan into the modern era.

  • Founded as far back as the 6th century, the shrine is so sacred that, until the fresh wind of reforms instituted during the Meiji era beginning 1868, pregnant women and the seriously ill were carried to the mainland to ensure that no births or deaths would occur on the island.

  • From Harajuku Station on the Japan Railways Yamanote loop line, it’s but a few steps to Meiji Jingu, the shrine dedicated to the spirits of the Emperor Meiji (who died in 1912) and the Empress Shoken.

  • For a thousand years, Kyoto served as the cultural and spiritual capital of Japanese civilization, the home of its revered emperors after the Nara period from the end of the 8th century up to the Meiji Restoration in the late-19th century.

  • 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.


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