In June, 1441, he invited the shogun to his mansion, where a splendid banquet was spread and a new kind of dancing was displayed.
A collision ensued in Kyoto between the parties of Masanaga and Yoshinari, and the shogun gave orders that they should settle their dispute by a combat, the guards attached to them alone taking part in the duel.
This act of contumacy provoked an imperial edict depriving the elder and younger lords of Choshu of their rank and commissioning the Shogun Iyemochi to chastise Choshu.
When the shogun arrived in Kyoto they brought strong pressure to bear on him with the object of inducing him to adopt their policy, and after long discussion he finally agreed to do so.
Many proofs of the truth of this accusation were submitted to the shogun by the Dutch, and color was lent to the charge by evidence that the missionaries themselves or their converts behaved with much intolerance and arrogance.
Against this counsel dissenting voices were not unheard, but finally an expeditionary force was organized and moved southward, the shogun himself accompanying it.
But in the early days the reins of administration were held so unflinchingly that even consanguinity with the shogun did not save from condign punishment a nobleman who failed in respect for the law.
The example thus set by the ex-shogun was readily imitated by the military men of the time, and to support all this luxury, it became necessary to increase the burden of taxation.
This was the first visit paid to the imperial capital by a Tokugawa shogun since the days of Iyemitsu, two hundred years previously, and the event naturally produced a strong impression upon the nation.
In time the wanderers reached home, and when the Shogun heard of Manjiro's travels he made him a samurai, or wearer of two swords.
The Shogun also found a native who understood English, although the Americans did not know this.
This advance of the fleet convinced the Shogun that Perry meant to go to Yedo.
The officers of theShogun received their magnificent visitor at the door of the pavilion.
Yoshida later came to be one of the leaders of the new Japan that ended the long line of Shogun rulers, and made the Mikado the actual emperor.
In spite of all this bustle and preparation, however, the Shogun and his advisers thought it would be wisest for them to agree to a treaty with the United States.
As soon as the Shogun learned that Commodore Perry was about to return he chose Hayashi, the chief professor of Chinese in the university, to serve as interpreter.
A week later the Shogun Iyeyoshi died, and left the government at odds as to what to do.
The Shogun did not approve of this idea; but a pupil of the scholar, named Yoshida Shoin, heard of it, and decided to go abroad by himself.
The actual ruler was the new Shogun Iyesada, son of the former Shogun.
When Perry arrived in 1853 it was the home of the Shogun Iyeyoshi, who was the real ruler of the land, although the Mikado was called the sovereign.
The Shogun was afraid that the admiral might insist upon seeing the Mikado at Ki[=o]to, and that would be a great blow to his own dignity.
In the city of Yedo the new Shogun was very busy preparing either for peace or war.
The Shimonoseki affair was not unlike the Boxer trouble, except that it was less fatal to life, but it exerted a large influence in the overthrow of the shogun and in the restoration of the emperor.
When the feudal lords of Choshu attacked the foreign ships at Shimonoseki Strait, the shogun was compelled to pay an indemnity of three million dollars and he attempted to chastise the Choshu leaders.
To more surely keep his people at home the Shogun prohibited the building of any but small sailing vessels.
First came the members of the royal family and those admitted to the circle by favor; next, the Shogun (of whom more will be heard under the subject of government) and his relatives.
Tokyo, on the other hand, was the seat of the shogun power, and there is a very noticeable difference between the two cities.
The new shogun accepted the situation without a struggle and those of his followers who attempted a resistance were soon routed.
One cannot go through the palace in which the emperor lived permanently without noticing how plain it is as compared with the castle (both at Kyoto) in which the shogun resided for a few days during his annual call upon the emperor.
They needed only an occasion to deprive the Shogun of his political power, and to restore it to the Emperor.
The revolution of 1867, from which the birth of New Japan is dated, was originally a dispute between the Mikado and the Shogun for the de facto sovereignty, and not the struggle of the lower classes to rise to political eminence.
The demand of the Western nations to open certain seaports of the country, accompanied by the threats of armed force, compelled the Shogun to yield.
The envoys sent by the Mikado from Kiôto to communicate to the Shogun the will of his sovereign were received with Imperial honours, and the duty of entertaining them was confided to nobles of rank.
Still, in that you appealed to the Shogun in person, you committed a grievous crime, and made light of your superiors; and for this it was impossible not to punish you.
When the Regent of the Shogun was murdered, some years since, outside the castle of Yedo, by a legal fiction it was given out that he had died in his own palace, in order that his son might succeed to his estates.
And now, as a last resource, we tremblingly venture to approach his Highness theShogun in person.
The Hatamotos were the feudatory nobles of the Shogun or Tycoon.
The Emperor abdicates after consultation with his ministers: the Shogun has to obtain the permission of the Emperor; the Daimios, that of the Shogun.
When the Shogun was reduced in 1868 to the rank of a simple Daimio, his revenue of eight million kokus reverted to the Government, with the exception of seven hundred thousand kokus.
The tomb of the Second Shogun is in an octagonal hall richly gilt, eight pillars covered with gilt copper plate supporting the roof.
It leads to a mausoleum erected to the memory of the first Shogun of the famous dynasty of Tokugawa.
A moss-grown stone staircase leads down to the tomb where the Shogun sleeps.
At the time of the fall of the Ashikaja Shogun he lived in a state of perpetual war, and the god of war was not propitious to him.
In 1868 the Shogun fell, and there can be little doubt his fall was to some extent brought about by the concessions which had been made to foreign Powers in regard to the opening of the country to foreign trade.
Nine hundred years later the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty sent two officials to Nikko to select a site for the mausoleum of his father.
Each temple is divided into three parts--the outer oratory, a corridor and the inner sanctum, where the shogun alone was privileged to worship.
He was very popular both with the shogun himself and with the Japanese courtiers and when he returned to Koryŭ the shogunsent a general, Chu Mang-in, as escort and also 200 Koreans who had at some previous time been taken captive.
Ch‘oe had acquired so much power that he was in reality the ruler of the land, holding much the same position that the Shogun of Japan is said to have occupied.
He may not inappropriately be styled the Shogun of Koryŭ.
The shogun also so far complied with the king’s request as to break up the piratical settlements on the Sam-do or “Three islands.
U succeeded to his father’s position which, as we have seen, corresponded closely with that of the Shogun of Japan.
Tametomo was therefore uncle to the Shogun Yoritomo and the hero Yoshitsune, of whom you will soon read.
The third of these became Yoritomo, the great first Shogun of Japan, while the eighth and youngest child was Ushiwaka, about whom this story is written.
Regent or shogun bowed down before it: divinity could not be usurped.
Nominally the Shogun was subject to the Emperor, but not in fact: military usurpation disturbed and shifted the natural order of the higher responsibility.
The Shogun Iyemochi attempted to chastise the daimyo of Choshu for this act of hostility; but the attempt only proved the weakness of the military government.
Moreover the Shogun visited Yeizan to make there official prayer for the prosperity of the country.
The shogun ruled over between two and three hundred lords of provinces or districts, whose powers and privileges varied according to income and grade.
No emperor or regent or shogun had ever been able to impose his rule firmly upon the whole country.
We met on the train going down the professor of Japanese literature in the University, who was going there because it was the seventh hundred anniversary of a Shogun who wrote poetry, and the professor was going over to lecture on his poems.
Kamakura is on the other side of Yokohama, an old Shogun capital; has lots of historic shrines, etc.
Foreigners did not realize that the Shogun was not the supreme authority.
Mr. Harris received as a present from the Shogunseventy pounds of Japanese bonbons beautifully arranged in four trays.
Finally the reigning Shogun was brought to see that it would be better for the country to have but one ruler, and resigned in favour of the Mikado.
After the earlier form had become debased and vulgarized the No dances kept their ancient ceremonial character, and continued to be performed before Shogun and samurai, and even before the Imperial family.
The violence of the ministerial Tarquin only served to direct attention to the illegality of his master's rule; and people began to turn their allegiance from Yeddo and the Shogun to the long-forgotten Mikado in his seclusion at Kioto.
At last, after many lesser transferences, he was given over from the prisons of the Shogun to those of his own superior, the Daimio of Choshu.
The object of their mission, we are told, was to pay a visit of ceremony to the sepulchre of Iyéyasu, and to congratulate the new shogun upon his peaceful succession.
This son was the shogun Hidétada, a man very different from his father in his manner of regarding foreigners.
But in the midst of these troubles there was a gleam of light in trade prospects, for the shogun was at last induced, early in 1620, to allow Nagasaki to be included in the English privileges.
In July, 1609, their ship the Red Lion arrived in that port and, favoured by Foyne Sama, they succeeded in obtaining from the shogun leave to establish a factory and to send one or more ships annually from Europe.
Another journey to court immediately followed; and this time no farther than Fushimi, near Miako, whither the shogun had come to visit the mikado.
With grim humour the shogun appropriated the cargo for himself, "leaving the rotten hull for us and the Hollanders.
The account of the journey to Yedo and of the audience with the shogunis very interesting.
In fact, the Japanese themselves saw the advantages to be derived from trade, and the shogun very naturally "would have his own vassals to get the benefit to bring up merchandise rather than strangers.
The Shogun had the power to dispose of those tenures, but the Shogunwas supposed to have possessed that authority by the delegation of the Imperial prerogative.
The family which ruled Japan as Shogun for the longest time before the Tokugawa, viz.
The system of the Shogunate had existed in Japan over seven hundred years, but the family which held in its hands the authority of the Shogun changed from time to time.
In no time the government of the Shogun despatched the second expedition to Chosiu, and war commenced, the result of which was a total repulse of the Shogunate troops.
In consequence of this, five young men of Chosiu sailed to England contrary to the then existing prohibition of the Shogun government Two of these five were the present Marquis Ito and Count Inouye.
Now Tokugawa lasted as Shogun two hundred and sixty-four years, with fifteen Shoguns; therefore Tokugawa ruled as the Shogunate longer than any other family.
When the last Shogun resigned his authority,' I continued, 'the Imperial government on a new and firmer basis was immediately organised.
He took a very important part in the civil war in Chosiu, and in the war which took place when Chosiu was surrounded by the Shogun troops.
Thus you can see that the fountain of honour had always remained with the Imperial court, nay more, the Shogun himself received his function and title from the emperor.
You know that, after the submission of the Shogun himself to the emperor, the great majority of the feudal lords in the north and the east of Japan effected a combination among themselves and opposed the troops on the Imperial side.
The gild received moneys on account of the Tokugawa or the feudal chiefs at provincial centres, and then made its own arrangements for cashing the cheques drawn upon it by the shogun or the daimyo in Yedo.
This idea seems to have been suggested to the shogun Takauji by a Buddhist priest, when he undertook the construction of the temple Tenryu-ji.
From Iyeyasu Captain Saris received a most liberal charter, which plainly displayed the mood of the Tokugawa shoguntowards foreign trade:-- 1.
Once again theshogun convoked a meeting of the feudal barons, hoping to secure their co-operation.
Kioto was at that time the scene of sanguinary tumults, which culminated in the murder of the shogun (1565), and led to the issue of a decree by the emperor proscribing Christianity.
The shogun does not seem to have had any thought of invoking that spirit: his part in raising it was involuntary and his ministers behaved with perplexed vacillation.
Japan was only opened to foreigners in 1868, and with the fall of the last Shogun and the beginning of the present Mikado's reign European customs rapidly spread.
In one room, which was especially reserved for the use of the Shogun when he came to visit his kinsman, the decorations are especially gorgeous, and here there are ideal Chinese scenes, which exactly resemble the familiar willow-pattern plate.
The Japanese shogun appropriated the cargo of the ship, leaving only the empty hull for the Dutch and English.
When the Mikado was restored in 1868 Kiyotaka, head of the Kwanze line, was convinced that an art so intimately connected with the Shogunate must perish with it, and fled to Shizuoka where the fallen Shogun was living in retreat.
The young Shogun distinguished himself by patronage of art and letters; and by his devotion to the religion of the Zen Sect.
At Palace-performances or when acting at a banquet, he must not let his eyes meet those of the Shogun or stare straight into the Honourable Face.
About 1375 the Shogun Yoshimitsu saw him performing in a Sarugaku no No at the New Temple (one of the three great temples of Kumano) and immediately took him under his protection.
The Soul of a Mirror The shrine of Ogawachi-Myojin fell into decay, and the Shinto priest in charge, Matsumura, journeyed to Kyoto in the hope of successfully appealing to the Shogun for a grant for the restoration of the temple.
The deified name of the great Shogun Ieyasu or Gongen Sama.
Illustration: Kato Sayemon in his Palace of theShogun Ashikaga.
At length Matsumura was able to present, the mirror to the Shogun Yoshimasa, together with a written account of its strange history.
The Shogun was so pleased with the gift that he not only gave Matsumura many personal presents, but he also presented the priest with a considerable sum of money for the rebuilding of his temple.
While there the shogun appointed him to receive and entertain an envoy from the mikado.
The shogun himself submitted to the decree of the mikado, but many of his followers did not.
Many of these daimios were great and powerful, able to wage war with the shogun himself.
Choshu, in common with many of his fellow Daimyos, was bitterly opposed to the rule of the shogun or tycoon, and when this rule resulted in the conclusion of the treaty with Commodore M.
The shogun having declared himself unable in the circumstances to give effect to the provision, the treaty powers determined to take the matter into their own hands.
The treaties lately concluded by the shogun with the foreign powers conceded the right to navigate the strait of Shimonoseki, leading to the Inland Sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shogun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
