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Example sentences for: shogunate

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If the victim managed to make her way here and stay for three years as a nun, she could obtain a decree of divorce from the shogunate and go free.
At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.
Even after the persecution and banishing of missionaries and the ban on Christianity, Nagasaki’s Catholics still managed — at great risk — to continue clandestine observance throughout the years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.
With him are two other worthy companions: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu’s mentor, and the great 12th-century warrior Minamoto no Yoritomo, who founded the Kamakura shogunate — and whom Ieyasu claimed as an ancestor.