Example sentences for: yamato

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

  • The Japanese were forced out of the Korean peninsula in the sixth century, but not before the Koreans had bequeathed to the Yamato court copies of the sacred images and scriptures of Chinese Buddhism.

  • Takachiho in central Kyushu, armed with the imperial mirror, sword, and jewel that Jimmu (Japan’s first emperor) used on his conquest of the Yamato Plain near Nara.

  • For centuries the Japanese national spirit (called yamato damashii), embodied in its best sense the honor, endurance, and loyalty expected of every good Japanese.

  • The state of Yamato, as early Japan was known, was organized into uji, or clusters of clans, together with subordinate guilds of farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers, and potters, all subject to the dominant uji of the imperial family.

  • The subsequent disillusionment has diluted yamato damashii as an ideal in the eyes of today’s younger generation.


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