Iyéyasu held the Shogunate only two years, and in 1605 transferred that title to his son Hidetada, though still retaining much power.
Two families, the Hojo and the Ashikaga, successively held the shogunate down to the year 1573.
The total amount which the Shogunate at Yedo had to pay to the court-nobles as annual honoraria was about eighty thousand koku.
The war ended in the defeat of the former, and the Shogunate emerged out of the war far stronger than before.
On the other hand, the forces which the Shogunate could raise in the western provinces only proved this time plainly inadequate.
The last of the Hojo committed suicide, and with the downfall of the family, the Shogunate of Kamakura broke down.
The more, however, the Shogunate tried to arm the nation against the foreigners, the more difficult it found the task it had in view.
The martial spirit which the Shogunate aroused was turned against itself, and the Shogunate proved unable to steer through the crisis at last.
The danger was thus shifted from foreign relations to the serious internal question, whether the Shogunate should be allowed to exist any longer or not.
All these discontented soldiery allied themselves with the Kyoto nobles, and caused the civil war of Jokyu to ensue between them and the Shogunate represented by the Hojo family.
Another reason which the Ashikaga Shogunate had in view in changing its seat, was that a great apprehension which had been entertained by the former Shogunate, would thereby cease.
If we include, therefore, the emolument paid to the court-nobles, and estimate them all together by the number of koku, the Shogunate had to pay to Kyoto an annual sum of between four and five hundred thousand.
Amid the exercise of all this pomp and while the power of the shogunate was thus supreme from end to end of the country, the seeds of future misfortune were sown.
In the early years of the shogunate large reserves of money were accumulated by Iyeyasu, Hidetada, and Iyemitsu, but Tsunayoshi expended the whole, and found himself reduced to considerable straits.
In the time of the Shogun Yoshinori, however, official intercourse with China was reopened, the emperor sending to Japan two hundred tickets in the nature of passports which were placed by the shogunate in the charge of the Ouchi family.
In 1716 the shogunate passed to Yoshimune of the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family.
At her slanderous instance he brought about the overthrow of a great territorial noble, Hatakeyama, and by her advice he conceived the project of elevating to the shogunate his younger daughter's husband, Hiraga Tomomasa.
The closing days of the Ashikaga shogunate are also noted for the opening of Japan's relations with the Europeans.
Imperialistic patriots arose, whose aim was to overthrow the Shogunate and restore the Emperor.
We should first note that the absolutism of the Tokugawa Shogunate served to arouse ever-growing opposition because of its stern repression of individual opinion.
Their aim was to overthrow the Shogunate and restore full and direct authority to the Emperor.
The abdicating proclivities of the nation in pre-Meiji times are well shown by the official list of daimyos published by the Shogunate in 1862.
With the overthrow of the Shogunate in 1868 Confucianism naturally went with it, and for a time Shinto was the state religion.
The Shogunatewas frowned on, because it had supplanted the autocracy of the heaven-descended Mikados.
The shogunate itself was reduced to the humiliation of paying tribute to China.
Not at least until the shogunate had fallen into decay.
The imperial court was nowise informed; and the Shogunate naturally dreaded to furnish the information.
Pressure was brought upon the imperial court to proclaim the abolition of the Shogunate; and the Shogunate was abolished by decree.
Happily the clansmen who had broken down the Shogunate saw both past and future in another light.
Until 1573 the misery continued; and the shogunate meanwhile degenerated into insignificance.
But it was under the Tokugawa Shogunate that such amusements and accomplishments became national.
Meanwhile the Shogunate had ascertained for itself the impossibility of resisting foreign aggression: it was fairly well informed as to the strength of Western countries.
Yet it was not until the year 1841 that the Shogunate took alarm, and proclaimed its disquiet by banishing from the capital the great scholar Hirata, and forbidding him to write anything more.
But under the Tokugawa Shogunate politeness became particularly a popular characteristic,--a rule of conduct maintained by even the lowest classes in their daily relations.
The Shogunate had indeed established peace and inaugurated prosperity; but who could forget that [372] it had originated in a military usurpation of imperial rights?
He revived the dead shogunate by appointing his own son shogun; he weakly ignored the services of those whose loyalty and courage had restored him; and he foolishly strengthened [271] the hands of those whom he had every reason to fear.
In the course of a few years the Shogunate came to an end, after the battle of Fushimi, which was fought between the Imperialists and the partisans of the Shogunate.
In the course of a few years the tide of events turned greatly in favour of the Imperialists, and the Shogunate at last came to an end.
Many men who were engaged in naval affairs under the Shogunate were given suitable positions under the new government; even Yenomoto, the chief of the rebel fleet, was made an admiral after he had been pardoned.
Roughly speaking, the burden of the lands under the direct control of the Shogunate was lighter than that on the lands under the different lords.
On one side the Shogunate partisans and on the other the Imperialists, amongst whom Chosiu was the most prominent.
It was begun when theShogunate was already tottering.
Just at that time the troops of Chosiu, which had been stationed in the neighbourhood of Kioto for some months, fought against the troops under the Shogunate and were defeated.
The Shogunate had under its immediate control territorial possessions which were roughly reckoned, in the terms of rice, eight million koku.
The expenditure of the Shogunate was maintained by the income from those territories.
The Shogunate now found its position very precarious.
His family had seized the Shogunate in 1338 and wielded absolute power at Kyoto, while two rival Mikados, one in the north and one in the south, held impotent and dwindling courts.
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.
National excitement at the news of the second coming of the Black Ships was followed by consternation at the discovery that the Shogunate confessed its inability to cope with the foreign powers.
A revolution in favour of the Mikado overthrew this system for a short interval, until the Shogunate was restored for a time to reality by the founder of the Ashikaga family.
This state paper completed the discomfiture of the som-bak-ka diplomats, the term invented by the Japanese for application to the foreign ministers who supported the cause of the Shogunate as far as was possible for them.
But we had long been in possession of indisputable evidence that the abolition of the Shogunatewas the cardinal point in the policy pursued by the western daimios acting in concert.
This man traces his pedigree back to Minamoto no Yoritomo, who founded the Shogunatein the year A.
In the time of the Shogunate these champions used to wrestle before the Shogun.
Towards the close of the Ashikaga shogunate painting entered on a new phase.
They imagined that the shogun's ministers sought only to evade their treaty obligations and to render the situation intolerable for foreign residents, whereas in truth the situation threatened to become intolerable for the shogunate itself.
One of their devices was to assassinate foreigners in the hope of embroiling the shogunate with Western powers and thus either forcing its hand or precipitating its downfall.
Associated with the Ashikaga shogunateis a financial device known in history as tokusei, a term signifying "virtuous administration.
In that light theshogunate was regarded while it remained in the hands of Yoritomo and his two sons, Yoriie and Sanetomo.
Estates were given to them, whether restored or newly bestowed, and they were treated much as were the hatamoto of the Yedo shogunate in later times.
When the power of the shogunate was at its height, the Shoso-in was never opened except by orders of the Emperor.
During the first eleven years of his shogunate he exercised little real authority, the administration being conducted by Ieyasu himself from his nominal place of retirement in Sumpu.
There was another element for which any student of Japanese history might have been prepared: the Satsuma samurai aimed originally not merely at overthrowing the Tokugawa but also at obtaining the shogunate for their own chief.
So long as the heat of their assault upon the shogunatefused them into a homogeneous party they worked together successfully.
He had been put forward by the anti-foreign Conservatives for the succession to the shogunate in 1857 when the complications of foreign intercourse were in their first stage of acuteness.
Even he dare not venture to oppose the Shogunate in such a matter.
He then offered to smuggle a message from me to the Commodore, so that the Shogunate might be warned to protect me from harm.
The officials in control of the Shogunate shut their ears.
The Mito party, if not quickly checkmated, would turn the Shogunate against all progress and greet the American expedition upon its return with an attack no less vicious than futile.
If the Shogunate sets aside the edict of non-intercourse, it may as well set aside the edict forbidding the entrance of tojin ships into other ports than Nagasaki.
No more, my lord, than a message from the tojin at Deshima that the black ships had sailed for Dai Nippon and would force the Shogunate to open other ports than Nagasaki.
The clans were responding to the call of the Shogunate by lining up to present a solid front to the barbarians.
If not, what of the prestige of the Shogunate in the eyes of those who conspire to overthrow the rule of the Tokugawas?
Make note that the prisoner confesses his return to Nippon for the purpose of counselling the Shogunate with the forbidden knowledge of the barbarians,” said the magistrate nearest Midzuano.
Written declarations found upon their bodies state that they had foresworn their loyalty to their lord, and intended to strike a blow against the Shogunate in favor of the temporal power of the Mikado.
She was one of the junks that the Shogunate had sought to convert into a warship.
But Perry had promised the reluctant Shogunate many months for deliberation, and I had heard the report from Nagasaki that the Tai-ping rebellion was raging in China.
I examined with intense interest the sturdy norimon bearers and the score of proud hatamotos, or shogunate samurais, who made up Yuki’s company.
The Dutch told the Shogunateto expect the expedition.
As the vices of King John and the indifference and ignorance of the first two Georges of England begat the strength and hope of the English Parliament, so the public opinion of Japan sprouted out of the ruins of the Shogunate régime.
But as the ancient histories were studied and the old constitution was brought into light, the real nature of the Shogunate began to reveal itself.
Thus was the Shogunateoverthrown and the Restoration effected.
This idea, however, was transmitted through the Shogunateofficials to the government of the Restoration.
Another cause which led to the overthrow of the Shogunate was the jealousy and cupidity of the Southern Daimios.
The cry of "Destroy the Shogunate and raise the Emperor to his proper throne!
The first sound of the trumpet against the Shogunate rose from the learned hall of the Prince of Mito, Komon.
They now saw in the rising tide of public sentiment against the Tokugawa Shogunate a rare opportunity of accomplishing their cherished aim.
We have seen in the last two chapters how the Shogunate and feudalism fell, and how the Meiji government was inaugurated.
The emperor seized upon this event and with the aid of the influential lords of Choshu and Satsuma abolished the shogunate in 1868.
Having maneuvered the shogunate away from Nobunaga's heirs, Hideyoshi became increasingly nervous about succession as his health began to fail, fearing that his heirs might be similarly deprived of their birthright.
After the Onin War, which had destroyed the power of the Ashikaga shogunate and the aristocratic Zen culture of Kyoto, Japan had become a collection of feudal fiefdoms.
His entire life was spent on the battlefield, where he concentrated his energies on strengthening the shogunate through the liberal application of armed might.
In 1598, as the end approached, Hideyoshi formed a council of daimyo headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu to rule until his son came of age, and on his deathbed he forced them to swear they would hand over the shogunate when the time came.
He lived in the last period of the Shogunate and studied Dutch books.
Cut off for centuries from military and administrative activities by the dominance of the Shogunate Government, the Kuge devoted themselves to the arts and the refinements of life.
There had been various dynasties of Shoguns at various times, but since the seventeenth century the Shogunate had been in the Tokugawa clan.
Custom confined the Shogunate to the Minamoto family, and the actual power was wielded by Regents in the name of the Shogun.
His title to the shogunate was frequently disputed, however, and rival claimants waged fierce war upon him.
The War of the Revolution ensued, and after much fighting the imperial troops were victorious; the shogunate was forever abolished, and the emperor once more took personal charge of the government.
It dates back to the period of the Kamakura Shogunateeight hundred years ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shogunate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
