Example sentences for: shoguns

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

  • Historians and sociologists like to explain it all as a continuation of the feudal spirit of rigidly reinforced social hierarchies, with company presidents as latter-day shoguns and middle management as reincarnated samurai warriors.

  • In addition to becoming a center of Western trade, Nagasaki provided a firm foothold in Japan for the Catholic Church — today much revived after 250 years of brutal suppression under the Tokugawa shoguns.

  • 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.

  • A short walk east from Hachimangu is the tomb of Yoritomo — an exceedingly plain and modest affair compared with the way a later dynasty of shoguns chose to immortalize themselves at Nikko.

  • 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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