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Definition: Shogun |
ShogunNoun1. A hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Shogun |
| English words defined with "shogun": Siogoon. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In reference to Japanese history, Shogun (将軍) was a practical ruler of Japan before Meiji Era.
Technically, the Japanese term is a shorthand for Seii Taishogun (征夷大将軍), a contraction of the ancient and rank of general or generalissimo, highest ranking samurai title, meaning "great generalissimo who overcomes the barbarians". Since the launch of Kamakura shogunate, the shogun had seized the practical power of ruling Japan, taking power over from the Imperial Court in Kyoto until the Meiji restoration.
The administration of a Shogun is called Bakufu, or the shogunate.
Originally, the Seii Taishogun title was given to military commanders during the early Heian Period for the duration of military campaigns against the Emishi who resisted the governance of the imperial court based in Kyoto. The most famous of these shoguns was Sakanoue no Tamuramaro who conquered the Emishi in the name of the emperor Kammu. Eventually the title was abandoned in the later Heian after the Emishi had been either subjugated or driven to Hokkaido.
However, in the later Heian one more, however short-lived, shogun was appointed. Minamoto no Yoshinaka was given appointed Seii Taishogun during the Genpei War only to be killed shortly thereafter by his distant cousin Minamoto no Yoshitsune, brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo.
After the defeat of the Taira clan in the Genpei War in 1185, Minamoto no Yoritomo seized power from the emperor and became the dictator and de facto ruler of Japan. He established a feudal system of government based in Kamakura in which the military, the samurai, assumed all political power while the Emperors of Japan and the aristocracy in Kyoto remained the figurehead de jure rulers. In 1192 Yoritomo was awarded the title of Seii Taishogun by the emperor and the political system he developed with a succession of shogun at the head became known as a bakufu (tent government) or Shogunate. From this point in history, all shogun that headed shogunates were by tradition descendants of the Minamoto princes, the sons of emperor Seiwa, and the title passed generation to generation to the eldest sons.
During the Kemmu Restoration after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate in 1333, another short-lived shogun arose. Prince Moriyoshi (also known as Prince Morinaga), son of the emperor Go-Daigo was awarded the title of Seii Taishogun and put in charge of the military. After Ashikaga Takauji, later founder of the Muromachi shogunate, rebelled against the emperor, Prince Moriyoshi was put under house arrest and killed in 1335 by Takauji's younger brother Ashikaga Tadayoshi.
In Japanese history, besides Minamoto no Yoritomo whose Kamakura Shogunate lasted for approximately 150 years, from 1192 to 1333, only Ashikaga Takauji and Tokugawa Ieyasu, each being descendants of the Minamoto princes, were awarded the title of Seii Taishogun and established bakufu on their own right. The Ashikaga Shogunate lasted from 1338 to 1573, while the Tokugawa Shogunate lasted from 1603 to 1868.
The so-called Transitional shoguns of 1568-1598 were never given the title of Seii Taishogun by the emperor and did not establish bakufu, but did for a period hold power over the emperor and most/all of Japan.
The title Seii Taishogun was abolished during the Meiji Restoration in 1868, in which effective power was "restored" to the emperor and his appointees. See Taisei houkan.
The system of bakufu was originally established under the Kamakura bakufu by Minamoto no Yoritomo. The military wing of the government came to dominate the civil (imperial) government, so that while the Emperors of Japan still technically led the government, all practical (and especially military) power rested with the shogun and the daimyo. The system was essentially "feudal" in nature, with lesser territorial lords pledging their allegiance to greater ones. Samurai were rewarded for their loyalty with land, which was in turn handed down and divided among their sons.
Three primary bakufu periods are usually identified, each centered around a family which tended to dominate the position of shogun during that regime. In the Japanese language, the time period of each regime is named after the capital of the bakufu. The Ashikaga and Tokugawa bakufu can also be (and usually is) named in this fashion.
"Shogun" is also the title of a 1975 novel by James Clavell.Seii Taishogun of Heian Period Japan (794 - 1185 AD)
Conquest of the Emishi
Gempei War
Seii Taishogun of Feudal Period Japan (1185 - 1868 AD)
Kamakura Shogunate
Kemmu Restoration
Muromachi and Edo Shogunates
List of Seii Taishoguns
Shogunate
Bakufu (幕府) originally described the dwelling and household of a shogun, but in time it came to be generally used in Japanese to describe the system of government of a feudal military dictatorship, exercised by the shoguns (literally "tent government", meaning a military rule), and this is the meaning that has been adopted in English, known as the shogunate.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shogun."
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Screenplays | Who dares to summon the Master of Masters, the Deliverer of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow, Aku? (Samurai Jack; writing credit: Paul Waite) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shogun (1968) Nogi shogun (1935) The Ex-sub Shogun Koumon Mito (1999) Hikosa and Tasuke Issin Shogun Iemitsu (1989) Kill the Shogun (1981) | |
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| "Shogun" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Shogun" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.95% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.16% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.89% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shogun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sjogoen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ŝoguno. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σογκούν, ιάπων αρχιστράτηγοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 将軍 (general), 上様 (emperor, honored person), 上 (a superior, aboard a ship or vehicle, above, after, as a matter of, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, best, emperor, far better, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, government, governmental, head, high class, higher, imperial, influence of, lord, my dear, on top of, outer, over, presenting, showing, sovereign, summit, superior, superior quality, surface, the above, top, up, upon, upper, upper part, upper part of the body, upper stream, upward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうぐ" (general), うえざま (emperor, honored person), うえさま (emperor, honored person), うえ (above, after, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, emperor, far better, higher, hunger, influence of, lord, my dear, on top of, over, sovereign, starvation, summit, superior, surface, up, upon, upper part). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogunshay шоган (shoguns). (various references) โชกุน. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "shogun": shogunal, shogunate, shogunates, shoguns. (additional references) | |
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"Shogun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chhoeun, Chojun, sahagian, Sahagun, Sahnouni, Shague, Shaozu, Shgen, Shiguang, shogan, shogunal, shoguni, shogunn, showgun, shoyu, Skoglund, sogun, Tshoungi. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shogun" (pronounced shō"gun) |
| 4 | -ō" g u n | Bogan, Brogan, Logan, slogan. |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bandwagon, bargain, Brannigan, cardigan, collagen, dragon, gorgon, hooligan, jargon, Lagan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, Mulligan, organ, pagan, shenanigan, snapdragon, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-n-o-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hongs, sough. | |
-2 letters: gnus, gosh, guns, gush, hogs, hong, hons, hugs, hung, huns, nogs, nosh, nous, onus, shog, shun, snog, snug, song, sugh, sung, ughs. | |
-3 letters: gnu, gos, gun, hog, hon, hug, hun, nog, noh, nos, nus, ohs, ons, son, sou, sun, ugh, uns. | |
-4 letters: go, ho, no, nu, oh, on, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: enoughs, gunshot, hognuts, housing, noughts, shoguns, shotgun. | |
+2 letters: chousing, gunshots, hangouts, hocusing, housings, roughens, shogunal, shotguns, shouting, souchong, soughing, southing, toughens, unsought, youngish. | |
+3 letters: bungholes, chorusing, couchings, doughnuts, gunkholes, hocussing, houseling, humongous, humungous, longhouse, onrushing, onslaught, rehousing, roughness, shogunate, shrouding, slouching, sloughing, slungshot, souchongs, southings, sphagnous, staghound, toughness, unhorsing, unhousing. | |
+4 letters: beshouting, chorussing, cushioning, gazehounds, greenhouse, greyhounds, groundfish, groundhogs, gumshoeing, halogenous, homogenous, houselling, hypogynous, longhouses, neighbours, nonhousing, nourishing, onslaughts, outfishing, outpushing, outrushing, outshaming, outshining, outwishing, roughnecks, shogunates, shotgunned, shotgunner, slungshots, squooshing, staghounds, upshooting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 6F 67 75 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... --- --. ..- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01101111 01100111 01110101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h o g u n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 006F 0067 0075 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537481738780 |
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