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Definition of Osaka bay

1. Noun. A bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osaka Bay

Literary usage of Osaka bay

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun: Its Annals During the Past Twenty by Samuel Mossman (1873)
"LIED ENVOYS AT osaka bay RECEIVE CONSENT OF MIKADO TO THE TREATIES. § 273. Sir Hurry Parkes arrives in Japan as British Minister. § 274. ..."

2. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"Ando has a vision of a group of buildings encircling osaka bay and ... Recently, he has designed a number of large buildings along the coast of osaka bay ..."

3. Environmental Performance Reviews by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Committee on Environmental Policy (2001)
"The low proportion of monitoring stations that achieve the EQS for NO2 on roadsides in metropolitan areas (eg about 60% in the Tokyo Bay and osaka bay ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... cliff), one of the three municipal prefectures (ken) of Japan, is situated on both banks of the Yodo River and along the eastern shore of osaka bay. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"It lies in a plain bounded, except westward, where it opens on osaka bay, by hills of considerable height, on both sides of the Yodogawa, or rather its ..."

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