How to Use shogun in a Sentence

shogun

noun
  • Half of Edo's 1.2 million people either fought for or worked for the shogun, or lived in the families of men who did so.
    Marjoleine Kars, Star Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
  • After lunch, head to Nijo Castle, the former seat of the Tokugawa shoguns in Kyoto.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The shogun demands Sakura for himself, but Akane refuses to give her up.
    Scott Meslow, GQ, 21 May 2018
  • One summer, the story goes, a group of men went into the shogun’s woods and stole some timber to rebuild a local temple, a capital offense.
    Ben Dooley, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2020
  • One of the shrines, Toshogu, is traditionally held to house the remains of the all-conquering shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the dynasty.
    Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • For those who find bloodthirsty Old West bandits too tame, behold a glitchy, malfunctioning shogun.
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • Finally, in 1868, after the last shogun had resigned, Edo Castle was surrendered to the emperor to avoid a civil war.
    Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 23 June 2020
  • For Thunberg’s delegation, there was none of the court jester humiliation that had befallen early trips to Edo—no need to sing and dance for the shogun.
    Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • The shogun’s dunzo, but what about that leaking cortical fluid, is that detail important?
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 20 May 2018
  • After watching the shogun murder her beloved Sakura in front of her (after Sakura had been used as a kind of canvas for the Shogun’s grisly art experiments), Akane danced, as she was instructed to do.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 20 May 2018
  • For travelers, following the remains of the shogun age provides a tantalizing doorway into a world rarely seen by outsiders.
    Hiroshi Okamoto, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2020
  • The opening and the third act deal with the political power struggle, which ties in with the local shogun’s increasingly hostile stance toward the story-songs performed by the lead characters.
    Kyle Smith, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022
  • In 1733, the ruling shogun placated his people by supplying gunpowder for a show above the Sumida River in modern Tokyo.
    Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 4 July 2018
  • When the ruling shogun was overthrown, Japan began a crash program in economic modernization.
    Chip Bayers, WIRED, 1 Jan. 2002
  • For Japanese history buffs, the significance was clear: Tokugawa came back from the defeat and later became shogun controlling all of Japan.
    Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Ieyasu’s victory—cemented by his appointment as shogun in 1603—ushered in the Tokugawa shogunate, an era of prosperity that endured for more than two and a half centuries.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Its original purpose was to help the new shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, consolidate his power in the largely provincial region.
    CNN, 19 Jan. 2022

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