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–noun Japanese History.

the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.

Also, shōgun.

[Origin: 1605–15; < Japn shōgun, earlier shaũgun < MChin, equiv., to Chin jiāngjūn lit., lead the army

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sho·gun·al, adjective

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n. The hereditary commander of the Japanese army who until 1867 exercised absolute rule under the nominal leadership of the emperor.

[Japanese shōgun, general, from Middle Chinese tsiangkun : tsiang, general + kun, army.]

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shogun

1615, "hereditary commander of Japanese army," from Jap. (sei-i-tai) shogun "(barbarian-subduing) chief" (1192), sound-substitution for Chinese chiang chiin, lit. "lead army." Shogunate (1871) is a hybrid, with L. suffix -ate.

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shogun
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a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68

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Shogun

Sho"gun\, n. [Chin. tsiang ki["U]n commander in chief.] A title originally conferred by the Mikado on the military governor of the eastern provinces of Japan. By gradual usurpation of power the Shoguns (known to foreigners as Tycoons) became finally the virtual rulers of Japan. The title was abolished in 1867. [Written variously, Shiogun, Shiogoon, etc.]

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