Genroku
Americannoun
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
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And the food at Genroku was really cheap, which was the operative word.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018
I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2018
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
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
They must exhaust every available kindness and civility, as was done in the period Genroku, in the case of the Rônins of Asano Takumi no Kami.
From Tales of Old Japan by Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron
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