Shogun Definition

shōgən
noun
Any of the hereditary governors of Japan who, until 1867, constituted a quasi-dynasty exercising absolute rule and relegating the emperors to a nominal position.
Webster's New World

The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan.

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Noun

Singular:
shogun
Plural:
shoguns

Origin of Shogun

  • From Japanese 将軍 (shōgun), from an abbreviation of 征夷大将軍 (Seii Taishogun) which means "General who overcomes the barbarians", from Middle Chinese 將軍 (tsjàng-kjun "leader of troops", "general") (compare Mandarin jiàngjūn 将军).

    From Wiktionary

  • Japanese shōgun general from Middle Chinese tsiaŋkyn (also the source of Mandarin jiāngjūn) tsiaŋ to take, bring, undertake, support kyn army

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Shogun Sentence Examples

  • To many Japanese observers i seemed that the restoration of 1867 had merely transferred the ad ministrative authority from the Tokugawa Shogun to the clans c Satsuma and ChOshC. The KOko Shimbun severely attacked th two clans as specious usurpers.

  • About thirty years later the town fell into the hands of Hojo of Odawara, and on his overthrow by Hideyoshi and Iyeyasu, the castle was granted to the latter, who was the founder of the shogun house of Tokugawa.

  • The shogun having declared himself unable in the circumstances to give effect to the provision, the treaty powers determined to take the matter into their own hands.

  • It must be noted that he didn't want to become a shogun.

  • It was here, at the Sakurada Gate, that Ii Kamon-no-Kami, prime minister of the shogun's government; was assassinated by the anti-foreign party in 1860.

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