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Example sentences for: shogun
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The original late-14th-century pavilion, completely covered in gold leaf, was typical of the unrestrained opulence of the Muromachi period favored by Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga, who had it built for his retirement at the ripe old age of 38.
Iemitsu, who was Ieyasu’s grandson and the third Tokugawa shogun (1603–1651), undertook the building of Toshogu.
; a great Japanese shogun, C1423; Esau; the prince of peace; l'homme d'Or ; a mouse.
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).
In feudal Japanese society, the person who would order suicides in place of executions was the shogun, or military leader of Japan.