Example sentences for: meiji

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

  • 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.

  • The Meiji emperor presided over the emergence of Japan as a modern nation state, and his shrine is surely the most solemn, decorous place in Tokyo.

  • 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 Meiji Restoration

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


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