Example sentences for: meiji

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

  • The Meiji Restoration

  • The Meiji Restoration and the opening of Japan to exotic new Western-style amusements further enhanced Asakusa’s reputation as Fun City.

  • Built by Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1603 for his occasional, reluctant visits to Kyoto (under imperial command), the castle was taken over by the Emperor Meiji after the restoration of 1868.

  • The ploy worked well enough until the Meiji Restoration, when those Western ideas were needed to modernize the country.

  • 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.


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