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Example sentences for: shoguns

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In the era of the Tokugawa shoguns, the canals were used to carry rice and grain in barges for onward shipment to the great markets of Osaka and Edo.
This most faithful lieutenant of the Tokugawa clan distinguished himself by planting the cedar forest around the shoguns’ mausoleums at Nikko.
Until the Tokugawa shoguns completed their conquest of all Japan from the 17th century on, the towns of Tohoku constituted the northern boundaries of the Japanese empire.
Kofukuji temple was the first of the Zen Buddhist temples built by the Chinese (1620) after the Tokugawa shoguns had outlawed Christianity and ordered citizens to register as Buddhists.
Halfway back along Kyushu’s west coast, Kumamoto is an old castle town that was of considerable importance to the Tokugawa shoguns as a counterweight to the presence of the annoyingly independent Shimazu clan down in Kagoshima.