Genroku

[gen-roh-koo, gen-raw-koo]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Genroku¹

< 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

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

From New York Times

The Japanese understood that tsunamis were the result of earthquakes, yet no one felt the ground shake before the Genroku event.

From The New Yorker

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

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