Example sentences for: shogun

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

  • The tomb itself, a miniature bronze pagoda that houses the great shogun’s ashes, is nothing special.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • It was built in the 15th century by an aesthete-mystic shogun, Yoshimasa Ashikaga, who used it for esoteric tea ceremonies and, above all, moon-watching in the elegant garden.

  • In feudal Japanese society, the person who would order suicides in place of executions was the shogun, or military leader of Japan.


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