Example sentences for: tokugawa

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

  • From here a flight of 207 stone steps takes you up through a wonderful forest of cedars to Ieyasu Tokugawa’s tomb.

  • The largest city in northern Chubu, Kanazawa has been able to preserve its older charms from the assaults of the Tokugawa shoguns and the bombs of World War II by pursuing a peaceful career of arts, crafts, and scholarship.

  • As the Tokugawa shoguns had feared, this opening of the floodgates of Western culture after such prolonged isolation had a traumatic effect on Japanese society.

  • North of the city center, Ueno was chosen in 1625 by the Tokugawa Shogun Hidetaka as the site of a vast temple complex.

  • Designed to invoke the castle architecture of the Tokugawa period, the theater was destroyed in an air raid in World War II and rebuilt in 1951.


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