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Genroku
[gen-roh-koo, gen-raw-koo]
noun
a period of Japanese cultural history, c1675–1725, characterized by depiction of everyday secular activities of urban dwellers in fiction and woodblock prints.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Genroku1
Example Sentences
I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku.
And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word.
The Japanese understood that tsunamis were the result of earthquakes, yet no one felt the ground shake before the Genroku event.
It reached Japan on January 27, 1700: by the local calendar, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Genroku.
On the eighth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of the Genroku era, a six-hundred-mile-long wave struck the coast, levelling homes, breaching a castle moat, and causing an accident at sea.
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