Genroku

[ gen-roh-koo; Japanese gen-raw-koo ]

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noun

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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Word History and Origins

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

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I would go to this rotary sushi place called Genroku.

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

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

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

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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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