Example sentences for: shogunate

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

  • 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.

  • The shogunate, always suspicious of people on the move, maintained a system of garrisons along the road, and no one went through without an official pass.

  • 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.

  • The shogunate had simply stuck Harris there to keep the dreaded Westerners away from the capital.

  • When Edo became the capital of the Tokugawa shogunate, Asakusa began to flourish as an entertainment quarter.


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