Example sentences for: choshu

How can you use “choshu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In response, the Americans, British, Dutch, and French combined forces to smash the Choshu fortified positions, and Britain retaliated for the assassination by practically leveling the town of Kagoshima in southern Kyushu.

  • In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.

  • In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.


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