shogun
IPA: ʃˈoʊgʌn
noun
- The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.
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Examples of "shogun" in Sentences
- Hopefully he'll be consistent and call shogun before his next fight!
- This is the temple of the second shogun, which is noteworthy for the beauty of the decoration of the sanctum and the tomb.
- I also suspect that Dane 101's readership (well represented here by "shogun" in the initial comment) likely follows irrational suit.
- The shogun was a misogynist, and Yasuaki understood well that men who profess to hate women become the slave of the fair sex when their alleged repugnance is overcome.
- The hearing by the shogun was the last recourse, and before submission to him the facts had to be investigated by the chamberlains (sobashu), who thus exercised great influence.
- Calling himself the "shogun" (a Japanese war lord who served as the virtual ruler of the country in feudal times), he said all the other big men "have to come upstairs and see me."
- I have elsewhere said that the title "shogun" originally signified, as did the Roman military term Imperator, only a commander-in-chief: it now became the title of the supreme ruler de facto, in his double capacity of civil and military sovereign, -- the King of kings.
- she certainly seemed nice enough in high school, though her preferred friends probably could not have quoted yoda, and probably have not spent all of spring break reading "shogun" by james clavell. however, i certainly thought well enough of her to remember her after ten years with vague well-wishes.
- Many of those buried here contributed to the modernization of Japan in one way or another during the Meiji Restoration -- a revolutionary period beginning in the late 1860s that was marked by the downfall of the shogunate ( "shogun" was the title given to the hereditary military commanders who ruled the country for 700 years) and feudalism and the creation of the modern state.
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