shogun

How To Use shogun In A Sentence

• Day after day thousands of people die of confessing their loyalty to the Tokugawa shogunate.
• When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.
• During the whole of the thirteenth century, and for some time afterwards, the Hojo continued to govern the country; and it is noteworthy that these regents never assumed the title of shogun, but professed to be merely shogunal deputies. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
• I am instructed to deliver it to the shogun as soon as possible.
• That same year another daimyo, also with shogunal consent, led an expedition to Taiwan to explore the possibilities of setting up a trading center there, although nothing came of the attempt. 43 In 1616, a Japanese merchant-adventurer named Murayama Toan (村山東庵) sent thirteen junks to conquer Taiwan. 44 They were ambushed in a creek by headhunters and decided to give up on Taiwan and instead pillage the Chinese coast. How Taiwan Became Chinese
• Well, for those who missed the "Shogun" miniseries, being called a gaijin is not a good thing. Why Publishing Is So Japanese
• The Kamakura shogunate represented the real power in the country until the resignation of the last shogun in 1867.
• During the early part of the 17th century, Japan's shogunate suspected that the traders and missionaries were actually forerunners of a military conquest by European powers.
• He was Oda Yorimoto, descendant of a powerful daimio of the Ashikaga Dynasty of shoguns who had fled Japan with his faithful samurai nearly three hundred and fifty years before upon the overthrow of the Ashikaga Dynasty. The Mucker
• Yoritomo took the title of shogun, which had been a temporary commission from the emperor, and made it a permanent hereditary office.