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  • proper noun Alternative form of Edo.

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  • noun the capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan

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Examples

  • “He is a fine man in many ways, but I hear he has the most terrible temper in all the city of Yedo.”

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • It was the day of the summer festival in Yedo, and Ooka had come down to the gate to see the parade go by his house.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • Now it so happened in the days of old Yedo, as Tokyo was once called, that the storytellers told marvelous tales of the wit and wisdom of His Honorable Honor, Ooka Tadasuke, Echizen-no-Kami.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • One of the houses destroyed was a home for orphans in the little town of Meguro near Yedo.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • Actually, reading it over, it strikes me as somewhat self-contradictory: he acknowledges that in Yedo such knowledge was very valuable, and that entree into European studies was a great benefit for the present and future.

    Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls 2005

  • Actually, reading it over, it strikes me as somewhat self-contradictory: he acknowledges that in Yedo such knowledge was very valuable, and that entree into European studies was a great benefit for the present and future.

    井の中の蛙 » Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls » Print 2005

  • Yet this lack of future hope was indeed fortunate for us, for it made us in Osaka better students than those in Yedo.

    Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls 2005

  • Yet this lack of future hope was indeed fortunate for us, for it made us in Osaka better students than those in Yedo.

    Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls 2005

  • Actually, reading it over, it strikes me as somewhat self-contradictory: he acknowledges that in Yedo such knowledge was very valuable, and that entree into European studies was a great benefit for the present and future.

    Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls 2005

  • Yet this lack of future hope was indeed fortunate for us, for it made us in Osaka better students than those in Yedo.

    Fukuzawa on Education; Mongol Scrolls 2005

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