: one of a line of military governors ruling Japan until the revolution of 1867–68
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The Americans forced the Japanese to open, which prompted a revolutionary group to fight and defeat the rulers (led by the military shogun) in battle, which led to overturning the internal order then run by the four classes—the military, farmers, artisans, and merchants—that had ruled Japan.
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Ray Dalio, TIME, 25 June 2024
There are epochs in which a powerful emperor or military dictator (i.e., a shogun) asserts stability over the country’s competing factions, and others in which feudal lords duke it out for supremacy and a miserable tooth-and-claw chaos reigns.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
Original author James Clavell based Toranaga on the real-life shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries and who was responsible for reviving the Gagaku music traditions that largely disappeared during the civil wars that preceded his rise to power.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
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
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Ray Dalio, TIME, 25 June 2024
There are epochs in which a powerful emperor or military dictator (i.e., a shogun) asserts stability over the country’s competing factions, and others in which feudal lords duke it out for supremacy and a miserable tooth-and-claw chaos reigns.
—Ryu Spaeth, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2024
Original author James Clavell based Toranaga on the real-life shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who lived during the late 16th and early 17th centuries and who was responsible for reviving the Gagaku music traditions that largely disappeared during the civil wars that preceded his rise to power.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
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
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shogun
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sho·gun
ˈshō-gən 
: any of a line of military governors ruling Japan until the revolution of 1867–68
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