Genroku

American  

[gen-roh-koo, gen-raw-koo] / gɛnˈroʊ ku, gɛnˈrɔ kʊ /

noun

1. a period of Japanese cultural history, c1675–1725, characterized by depiction of everyday secular activities of urban dwellers in fiction and woodblock prints.

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Etymology

Origin of Genroku

< Japanese, the imperial era name (official epithet) for the period 1688–1704 (< Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese yuán original, first + lù good fortune)

Example Sentences

I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word.

From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018

It reached Japan on January 27, 1700: by the local calendar, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of Genroku.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

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.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

But in the middle period of the Tokugawa Bakufu—the Genroku period, as it is commonly called—the tradesman became a comparatively conspicuous figure.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)