Crossword-Solution: YODO 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Though through the favor of the Yodo shōguns it recovered lands and wealth, girded itself anew as the spy, persecutor and professed extirpator of Christianity, and maintained its popularity with the common people, it was, during the eighteenth century, among the educated Japanese, as good as dead.

Long before the United States, or Commodore Perry, the Hollanders advised the Yodo government in favor of international intercourse.

Hence the attendant guided him to the Miuraya, where was bespoken the presence of the brilliant _oiran_ O'Yodo.

While some sought to aid the desperately wounded man, others drew away O'Yodo, again the woman and overcome with tears of regret at her failure.

The boats therefore sailed in line ahead, "the prow of each ship touching the stern of the other." Off the mouth of the river, now known as the Yodo, they encountered such a high sea that they called the place Nami-hana (Wave Flowers), a name subsequently abbreviated to Naniwa.