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Edo

noun

A member of a west African people living in the tropical forest region of southern Nigeria.

The capital and largest city of Japan; the economic and cultural center of Japan. Synonyms: capital of Japan, Japanese capital, Tokio, Tokyo, Yeddo, Yedo.

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... and other ministers of Bacchus, so called from Edo'nus, a mountain of Thrace, where the rites ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... is that found in Volume I. of the Edo Sunago, published Keio 2nd year (1866). The detail of district maps found in the book is worked in, together with that from the sectional map of Edo published Ansei 4th year (1857), and from the Go Edo Zusetsu Shu[u]ran published Kaei 6th year (1853). The map therefore shows in ...

— The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville