shogun

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• The Ashikaga military clan took control of the shogunate and moved its headquarters back to Kyoto, to the Muromachi district of the city.
• In Japan the supreme warlord or Shogun, who had capitulated to the western powers, was overthrown and the Meiji Emperor restored to full authority in 1868.
• Hotta was a retainer of Asano Takumi no Kami, who drew his sword in anger and attacked Kira Kozukenosuke while in the shogunal castle, resulting in his own death by seppuku and the attainder of the House of Ako.
• she certainly seemed nice enough in high school, though her preferred friends probably could not have quoted yoda, and probably have not spent all of spring break reading "shogun" by james clavell. however, i certainly thought well enough of her to remember her after ten years with vague well-wishes. People you haven't seen in a very long time, and didn't know very well when you did know them
• From then effective power lay with the shogun rather than the emperor.
• His direct ancestor is the legendary warlord Ieyasu Tokugawa, who established a dynasty that shut Japan off from the world for 250 years (you may remember him portrayed as the victorious Toranaga in James Clavell's megaseller "Shogun"). The Big Bang Or A Big Bust?
• Young leaders, such as Saig Takamori (1827–77) and kubo Toshimichi (1830–78) of Satsuma, plotted to undermine the shogunal authorities. 1867
• Japan's reactionary Tokugawa shogunate employed gunpowder to obliterate troublemakers and then banned all guns—even its own—for the sake of preserving the samurais' sword-wielding hegemony. Where They Got Their Grit
• The Bakufu insisted that to convey such a document direct from the Throne to a feudatory was a plain trespass upon the shogun's authority. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• This is just the kind of situation Japan was in at the end of the sixteenth century when Iyeyasu Tokugawa came to power as shogun. FLOATING CITY