Example sentences for: tokugawa

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

  • But the unrest they inspired prompted the Tokugawa government to move them all here, to a guarded compound on the village flats — ostensibly to guarantee their safety, but more importantly to contain the contamination of their uncouth ways and ideas.

  • In the end it was the very rigidity of their unshared control of the country that brought about the downfall of the Tokugawa.

  • At the top of the Omote-sando, on the left, is the five-story pagoda of the shrine, decorated with the 12 signs of the Asian zodiac and the hollyhock crest of the Tokugawa family.

  • This most faithful lieutenant of the Tokugawa clan distinguished himself by planting the cedar forest around the shoguns’ mausoleums at Nikko.

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


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