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Example sentences for: tohoku

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The buildings were constructed in 1609 by the lord of Tohoku, Masamune Date.
Until the Tokugawa shoguns completed their conquest of all Japan from the 17th century on, the towns of Tohoku constituted the northern boundaries of the Japanese empire.
Its massive rice yield (as much as 20 percent of the national rice crop) has made Tohoku the chief supplier of the country’s needs.
The very remoteness of Tohoku was appealing to such religious groups as the Zen Buddhists, who espouse an ascetic, unworldly life and constructed some of the country’s finest Buddhist temples in this northern part of Honshu.
But both northern Honshu — which is more commonly known as “Tohoku” — and the northernmost island of Hokkaido offer the advantage of unspoiled countryside and friendly down-to-earth villagers still imbued with something of a frontier spirit.