昭和元禄

Japanese
Kanji in this term
昭 和 元 禄
しょう
Grade: 3		 わ
Grade: 3		 げん
Grade: 2		 ろく
Jinmeiyō
goon kan’on
Alternative spelling
昭和元祿 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Coined by Takeo Fukuda in 1964.[1]

From 昭和 (Shōwa, era name between 1926-89) +‎ 元禄 (Genroku, era name during the mid-Edo period, considered to be the golden age of that time).

Proper noun

昭(しょう)和(わ)元(げん)禄(ろく) • (Shōwa Genroku) 

  1. (historical) the period of peace, leisureliness, and high economic growth in post-war Japan until the oil crises of the 1970s

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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