The period in between, some two hundred thirty years, is commonly called the Edo period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before Edo] Reference

Edo is the old name of Tokyo, before it became the capital. “mae” is the Japanese word for front, like you said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menu For Hope 6] Reference

The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 December 09 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference

He went to Edo, which is now known as Tokyo, to work and study under a master poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Melons -- Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa] Reference

Kyoto and Tokyo (then known as Edo).    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

As unable to accompany his lord he remained in Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Built the first day Little Edo district was established.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.9: A Day of Madness. What?! Get Out of Here! No Really, Go!] Reference

My father, doubtless warned by the crowd, fled from Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Thus began the brutal progress across Edo in full daylight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Surely the thieves by this time were at the other end of Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

O'Kiku written into the history of Edo and the Yoshida Goten.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

His service brought him in the train of his lord's progress to Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

Suzuki the plebeian merely suffered stripes and banishment from Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

By nightfall, Michael and Dom Coqui sat on a park bench in Little Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.4: The Chupacabra is Out There] Reference

The business of the day was long over in this business section of Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Once he had looked upon banishment from Edo as the limit of his punishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Good old-fashioned Edo-style sushi is not likely to disappear any time soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bringing Sushi To Japan] Reference

It turned its head east overlooking Little Edo and marched in that direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.13: March of the Steel Giant] Reference

The deepening of the beds of the Kanda and Edo Rivers had drained the marshes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

Iyeyasu's advent to Edo the shore line ran close to the inner moat of the castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

The Otokodaté, or chivalrous band, were indeed needed in this state of early Edo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

Give them but the opportunity in the disorder of Edo, and the sword will be drawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

It's worth remembering, though, that Edo society grew stagnant and ended in turmoil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Takes A Bath] Reference

It would appear that the giant robot is heading in the direction of Little Edo District.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.13: March of the Steel Giant] Reference

This is Japan at the end of the feudal Edo period, retouched by a painter and entrepreneur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasures Of The Past] Reference

Iyemitsu slept the night at Edo castle, owing to the valour and strength of Ishikawa Hachiémon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference

      One day, two years ago when he was eighteen, tourists from Japan arrived in Little Edo, a young couple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.1 : The Employee, the Package, and the Oddity] Reference

The Great Edo Hot Spring Story opens March 1, and will be Tokyo's most spectacular hot-spring fantasyland for at least two months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan Takes A Bath] Reference

      In a small park in Little Edo, the cherry blossoms bloomed, and the fragrance of the grass and plants brought calm and serenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.14: Ki to Wisdom] Reference