shogunate

IPA: ʃˈoʊgʌnʌt

Examples of "shogunate" in Sentences

They were banned, rounded up, and destroyed by the shogunate, which is why they are so rare today, and that is one of the survivors.
Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony.
"But if we assume that it's early 17th century, there's a possibility it was owned by Tokugawa Yorinobu, one of the sons of the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate that lasted for 300 years," Mr. Welch says.
The path to the shogunate is a long and arduous journey, made easier by such a vassal as Hattori Hanzo, but in this last volume of Path of the Assassin, Koike and Kojima will tell us just how difficult that journey can be.
Fillmore was an early champion of American commercial expansion in the Pacific, and in 1853 he sent a fleet of warships, under the command of Commodore Matthew C. Perry, to Japan to force its shogunate government to alter its traditional isolationism and enter into trade and diplomatic relations with the United States (primary source document: A Golden Rule for Foreign Affairs).