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Example sentences for: shogun

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When Ieyasu became shogun in 1603, Edo in turn became the seat of national government — and its castle the largest in the world.
In feudal Japanese society, the person who would order suicides in place of executions was the shogun, or military leader of Japan.
The tomb itself, a miniature bronze pagoda that houses the great shogun’s ashes, is nothing special.
At Ieyasu’s command, Adams (the model for the hero of James Clavell’s novel Shogun) set up a shipyard in Ito and built Japan’s first two European-style ocean-going vessels.
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.