shogunn.
/ˈʃəʊɡʊn/ Now historical.
1. The hereditary commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, until 1867 the virtual ruler of Japan. Also called tycoon n.By successive usurpations of power, the Shogun or Tycoon had become the real ruler of Japan, though nominally the subject of the Mikado, and acting in his name. This state of things was misunderstood by Europeans, and it was erroneously supposed that there were two emperors in Japan, the Mikado (who was the object of a loyalty of the nature of religious devotion) being called ‘the spiritual emperor’, and the Shogun ‘the temporal emperor’. In 1867, with the abolition of the feudal system, the Mikado assumed the actual sovereignty, and the reign of the Shoguns came to an end.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > de facto ruler of Japan
shogun1615
tycoon1857
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > [noun] > commander-in-chief > of specific forces
shogun1615
strategos1616
polemarch1656
seraskier1684
stratege1744
tartan1880
1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) I. 5 His wife is sent back to her father Shongo Samme, King of Edo and to succeed in the Empire.
1727 J. G. Scheuchzer tr. E. Kæmpfer Hist. Japan App. i. 65 It was thought expedient, that the Seogun, or Crown-General, should be sent against them at the head of the imperial army.
1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon II. 233 The Seogun, or Dai-Seogun.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 281 The fall of the shogun's (tycoon's) government.
1879 G. A. Audsley & J. L. Bowes Keramic Art Japan I. Pref. The difficulty which modern writers have found in deciding upon the correct mode of spelling the single word Shôgun; in the Japanese Government Reports we find it written Shogun; Mr. F. Ottwell Adams..writes it..Shôgun; Mr. Dickson, Shiogoon; Mr. Mossman, Siogoon; Mr. Mitford, Shogun; Dr. Siebold, Sjôgun; and Mr. Satow..Shôgun.
2. attributive designating fashions or art belonging to the Japanese feudal period.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
1889 E. Arnold Seas & Lands (1895) xiv. 226 A seated figure, which might have been taken at first for the chief triumph of the Shogun carvers' work.
1904 D. B. W. Sladen Playing the Game i. vi Tied in the elegant and fantastic Shogun knots which are the formal way of fastening up presents in Dai Nippon.
Derivatives
ˈshogunal adj. relating to a shogun, the shoguns, or the shogunate.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [adjective] > relating to de facto ruler of Japan
shogunal1899
1899 C. Holmes Hokusai 14 His artistic reputation had even spread to the Shogunal court.
ˈshogunate n. the office or dignity of a shogun or the shoguns.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > de facto ruler of Japan > position of
shogunship1841
shogunate1871
1871 A. B. Mitford Tales Old Japan I. 99 After..the abolition of the Shogunate, he accompanied the last of the Shoguns in his retirement.
1873 Mossman New Japan 333 The despotic rule of the Mikados before the Siogoonate was established.
1883 E. M. Thompson in R. Cocks Diary I. 5 (note) Iyéyasu held the Shogunate only two years.
ˈshogunite n. rare. a partisan of the shogunate.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Japanese politics > partisan of shogunate
shogunite1890
1890 E. Arnold Seas & Lands (1895) xxii. 364 The rebels, or Shogunites, were defeated.
ˈshogunship n. = shogunate n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > de facto ruler of Japan > position of
shogunship1841
shogunate1871
1841 Mann. & Cust. Japanese 357 The Annals begin to tell..of rival heirs contending for the ziogoonship.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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