shogunate

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The path to the shogunate is a long and arduous journey, made easier by such a vassal as Hattori Hanzo, but in this last volume of Path of the Assassin, Koike and Kojima will tell us just how difficult that journey can be.

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  1. noun The government, rule, or office of a shogun.

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  • The practice continued into the time of the Tokugawa shogunate, when Iyeyasu made laws to check it. —  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • From the accession of the Minamoto to power the history of the shogunate--the long history of the military supremacy--really begins; Japan thereafter, down to the present era of Meiji, having really two Emperors: [268] the Heavenly Sovereign, or Deity Incarnate, representing the religion of the race; and the veritable Imperator, who wielded all the powers of the administration. —  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • Nevertheless the Hojo suffered the phantom-shogunate to linger on, until 1333. —  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • The counsels [279] of the founder of Yedo were followed by his successors; and the Tokugawa shogunate, which lasted until 1867, gave the country fifteen military sovereigns. —  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • In 1664 the shogunate issued an edict proclaiming that the family of any person performing junshi should be punished; and the shogunate was in earnest. —  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
 

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/ˈʃoʊgunət/
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