sho·gun·ate

(shō′gə-nĭt, -nāt′)

The government, rule, or office of a shogun.

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shogunate

(ˈʃəʊɡʊnɪt; -ˌneɪt)

1. (Historical Terms) Japanese history the office or rule of a shogun

2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Japanese history the office or rule of a shogun

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shogunate

1192–1867 Japanese rule by a sequence of hereditary military dictators paying only nominal allegiance to the emperor.

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Noun

shogunate - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, absolutism

autocracy, autarchy - a political system governed by a single individual

police state - a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

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I look forward to seeing the 16th-century shogunate castle, for example.

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Synopsis: In June, 1565, master ninja Hiro Hattori receives a pre-dawn visit from Kazu, a fellow shinobi working undercover at the shogunate. Hours before, the shogun"s cousin, Saburo, was stabbed to death in the shogun's palace.

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They claimed to be Christians who had been in hiding from persecution for the last seven generations, and that their friends told them to stay away from the cathedral, this being a trap of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867) to catch remaining Christians.

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This story is about the Kirishitan in Japan hiding from the suppression of Christianity by the Tokugawa shogunate.

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In the transformation process from the Tokugawa Shogunate to a centralized government under the emperor, supported by the Satsuma-Choshu han (a feudal domain) coalition, a big social change had taken place.

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He left his domain to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate and was committed to forming an alliance between the Satsuma and Choshu domains.

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In 18th-century Japan, a group of samurai go against the word of the Shogunate to avenge the death of their Lord at the hands of a treacherous villain who seeks their former-master's lands and his daughter as his wife.

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'The political system would become a benevolent dictatorship like Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, otherwise it will become a hereditary military regime like Japan's pre-Meiji Shogunate and subservient to both China and Vietnam like pre-French colonised Cambodia,' said political analyst Lao Mong Hay.

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gun har to o Brit Hol and to sig that o try to At th ruled weak a emper that time Japan was on behalf of the and powerless emperor by the shogun, (general), from the Tokugawa Shogunate (family).

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At that time Japan was ruled on behalf of the weak and powerless emperor by the shogun, (general), from the Tokugawa Shogunate (family).

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Wikipedia says the Meiji administration created the first prefectures (urban-fu and rural-ken) from 1868 to replace the urban and rural administrators in parts of the country previously controlled directly by the shogunate and a few territories of rebels/shogunate loyalists who had not submitted to the new government such as Aizu/Wakamatsu.

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