Example sentences for: shoguns

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

  • Eventually, the Ashikaga family shoguns settled down in Kyoto’s Muromachi district, which gave its name to the new creative period that followed.

  • 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.

  • Ever since the Tokugawa shoguns restricted performances to the samurai classes, noh drama has had a rather elitist appeal.

  • He was also a master of the art of conspicuous consumption, contrasting sharply with the restraint shown by the Ashikaga shoguns in their more subtle displays of wealth.

  • This most faithful lieutenant of the Tokugawa clan distinguished himself by planting the cedar forest around the shoguns’ mausoleums at Nikko.


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