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

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024