Example sentences for: shogunate

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

  • At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.

  • The shogunate founded great numbers of Zen temples in Kamakura.

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

  • The shogunate bowed to the pressure and agreed to accept American diplomat Townsend Harris, who established the first US consulate at Gyokusenji temple in Shimoda in 1856.

  • Nichiren’s defiance of both Zen and Jodo (“Pure Land”) Buddhism eventually persuaded the shogunate to order him beheaded on a hill to the south of Hase.


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