shogun
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There is no shogun, no unquestioned and absolute ruler, holding the country’s fractious lords together when “Shogun” begins.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Rucci dubbed one of the most magnificent of the robes “the shogun caftan.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2023
The word “meyasubako,” meaning a petition box in Japan under the shogun, appeared for the first time yesterday in The Times in an article about taking suggestions.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
The edict was not enforced, but the Jesuits, alarmed, asked Christian daimyos to help them attack the shogun, which they refused to do.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
“Word has it,” Marie-Laure overhears one taxidermist telling another, “the stone is from Japan, it’s very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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East Asia - Middle School
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