shogun

Example Sentences

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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.

From New York Times

And the fact that it’s the shogun’s mother, and she’s poisoning her own son — there is a thread of wickedness in his work, and that was maybe my first encounter with it.

From New York Times

It was said to be able to split a helmet in two and was worn by the shoguns, or rulers, of Japan's military government for centuries.

From BBC

One was that a nondescript pile of stones was a monument for the burial of the afterbirth of the sixth shogun Tokugawa Ienobu, whose residence had been next to the shrine.

From Seattle Times

Standing by for the final bloodbath are a few hundred of the shogun’s warriors.

From Washington Post