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Example sentences for: shogun

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Built by the shogun in the 17th century for an abdicated emperor, Shugakuin is in fact three villas, each with airy teahouses in the gardens.
Uprisings in the towns and countryside began to pose serious threats to the shogun’s authority.
Minamoto died in 1199, and the feudal structure passed intact to the tutelage of his widow’s family, the Hojo, who were content to play regent to a figurehead shogun, in much the same way as the Fujiwara had done with the emperor.
Of the Edo-era buildings that have survived or been restored, the most important are the main hall of Kan’eiji and the Toshogu Shrine to the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu — a lesser version of the great sanctum at Nikko, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture (see page 64).
The stubborn Americans came back again in 1853, with Commodore Matthew Perry bringing for the shogun (whom he mistook for the emperor) a polite but insistent letter from President Millard Fillmore and a promise to return the next year, with a bigger squadron, for a positive response.