In years to come, Zen would be the official state religion, shoguns would become Zen patrons extraordinaire, and a totally Zen culture would rule Japan.
The musket was to be an important ingredient in the final unification of Japan, the dream of so manyshoguns and emperors in ages past.
During the Tokugawa regime another Chinese "religion" assumed the place in the hearts of the shoguns that Buddhism had enjoyed in centuries past.
Virtually all the temples and estates in Kyoto, together with their gardens, were abandoned relics; and the once indulgent patronage of aristocrats and shoguns was gone forever.
The great upsurge of Buddhism with its fiery teachers and believing shoguns was over, as the faith settled into empty ritual and a decidedly secondary station in a basically secular state.
There were almost a dozen Ashikaga shogunsafter Yoshimasa, but none had any influence on the course of history.
The emperor and Ashikaga shogunsin Kyoto were titular rulers of a land they in no way governed.
What were the qualities of these stones that they should have been hauled for hundreds of miles and prized by shoguns and Zen aesthetes alike?
Takauji was the founder of a line of Ashikaga shoguns who gave their name to the next two centuries of Japanese history.
Next to the priest-emperor at the head came the kuge, or ancient nobility, from whose ranks most of the latter regents and shoguns were drawn.
The Tokugawa shoguns exercised iron discipline, and now were brought to perfection those exquisite arts and manners of the Japanese.
Little did we imagine that within five years the Shoguns would be swept away, and the Mikado restored to more than his ancient power.
We were entertained by Townsend Harris and shown the sights of the city of the Shogunswhen it was still clothed in its mediaeval costume.
Therefore, for possession of this office of kwanryo vehement conflicts were waged, and at one time five rival shoguns were used as figure-heads by contending factions.
Again in the case of the Ashikaga shoguns the political tendency to exercise power vicariously was shown, as it had been shown in the case of the mikados in Kioto and in the case of the Minamoto in Kamakura.
The Hojo adopted towards the shoguns the same policy as that previously pursued by the Fujiwara towards the sovereigns--appointment during the years of childhood and removal on reaching full manhood.
Prince Munetaka, an elder brother of the reigning Emperor, was chosen, and thus the last four Bakufu shoguns were all of Imperial blood.
The early Tokugawa shoguns would have strongly resented such interference, but times had changed, and Ieyoshi bowed his head quietly to the new order.
In reference to the employment of cavalry, the Genji warriors and the first of the Ashikaga shoguns made use of horses largely, but in later days the Ashikaga did not move away from Kyoto and had no use for horses.
Here, it is sufficient to say that one of the greatest and most truly patriotic of the Tokugawa shoguns himself unwittingly sowed the seeds of disaffection destined to prove fatal to his own family.
Other instances might be quoted showing how little mercy the Tokugawa shoguns extended to wrongdoers among their own relatives.
It is true that Hideyoshi, doubtless in imitation of Chinese custom, stamped a vermilion seal upon documents of this character; but the Tokugawa shoguns employed a black signature written with a pen.
It is evident that Rekko Sama seeks to ape the tricks of the shoguns with the Dutchmen,” I rejoined.
But she loves me--” “The daughters of daimios andshoguns are presumed not to love until after marriage.
The tombs and temples of shoguns were nothing to me.
They have charge of the temple and the tombs of the four Shoguns who are buried at Shiba Park.
Near at hand are the temples and tombs of the six shoguns of the Tokugawa family, buried in Uyeno Park.
Services were held before the shrines and the glorious conquest of the shoguns and of Hideyoshi (popularly known as the Napoleon of Japan) were described in glowing words.
And anyone who goes through the three splendid temples that serve as memorials of the early shoguns will agree that the proverb is true.
Shiba Park is noteworthy for its temples (which contain some of the most remarkable specimens of Japanese art) and for the tombs of seven of the fifteen shoguns or native rulers who preceded the Mikado in the government of Japan.
No One Crossed It Except the Shoguns and in Modern Times the Mikado.
But the gorgeous mausoleums of the Shoguns at Shiba and Uyeno were closed to the foreigner, and remained so up to the revolution of 1868.
Fear alone would not have induced a haughty government like that of the Shoguns to acquiesce in breaking through a law of restriction that had such a highly creditable antiquity to boast of.
The burial places of the Shoguns were not damaged.
The shoguns were military rulers and a number of them were men of great force and executive ability.
He was one of the leaders in the movement to restore to the emperor the authority which the shoguns had usurped and was for a while close to the throne.
The shogunsfortified their castles and required the feudal lords to keep headquarters in Tokyo.
Noda and this woman Mori talked a lot about shoguns and emperors.
He displayed the same obsession with Japan's technological future that the old-time shoguns must have had about the goings-on of their vassals.
It was Momoyama, around 1600, the time when the most recent crowd of shoguns took over Japan.
He'd just turned the Imperial Household into an accomplice in some kind of nationwide collection, using the Emperor for his own ends much the way shoguns of old had done.
One of the most interesting places to visit in Tokio is Shiba with its tombs of the Shoguns and Buddhist temples.
The approach to the mortuary temples of the Shoguns is by a wide stone-paved avenue bordered on either side by stone lanterns not more than six feet apart and of graceful shape.
Kyoto, sometimes called Saikyo, was the ancient capital, where the shoguns and mikados used to reside in the early days.
It was in this palace that the last of the Shoguns formally turned over his power to the Mikado, an event which marked the beginning of the new era for Japan.
While the shoguns were in power they owned all the land in the realm.
After the destruction of Ozaka the shoguns adopted the policy of detaining for stated periods, at court, the daimios of the several provinces or some members of their families.
The palace of the Ashikaga shoguns then replaced the Imperial court as the centre of patronage of art and literature and established a new era in art history.
The Ashikaga shoguns developed this restriction by selling to the highest bidder the exclusive right of engaging in a particular trade, and the Tokugawa administration had recourse to the same practice.
They heaped, therefore, on the successive Shoguns of the Ashikaga family titles of high-sounding honour, much higher than those with which the Shoguns of Kamakura had been invested.
The last of the Shoguns who tried to stem this irresistible tendency to disintegration was Yoshihisa, the son of Yoshimasa.
They are said to have been planted as an offering to the buried Shoguns by a man who was too poor to place a bronze lantern at their shrines.
The less important Shoguns of the line of Tokugawa are buried in Uyeno and Shiba, in Yedo.
After the battle of Fushimi, and the abolition of the Shogunate, he accompanied the last of the Shoguns in his retirement.
Their fathers had been more subservient to the Shogunsthan the French nobility to Louis XIV.
When the Tokugawa shoguns came into possession of the administrative power, the edicts against the foreign faith were strictly enforced, and steps were taken to restore to Buddhism those who had embraced Christianity.
It is a point well worthy of the attention of students of history, that from the time of their accession to power until the day of their downfall, the Tokugawa shoguns never resorted to the device of issuing fiduciary notes.
The Ashikaga shoguns found themselves perpetually confronted by disturbance and disaffection.
The shoguns of the Ashikaga family and the years of their rule were as follows: 1.
It is reserved for the family Tokugawa, the former shoguns of japan, whose ancestors built the great shrines of Nikko, and for the Emperor on his occasional visits.
As theshoguns became paramount over the mikados, so did the Hojo, the regents of the shoguns, become paramount over them, and for nearly one hundred and fifty years these vassals of a vassal were the virtual emperors of Japan.
The shoguns were chosen by them from the Minamoto clan, boys being selected, some of them but two or three years old, who were deposed as soon as they showed a desire to rule.
These short reigns helped the shoguns and ministers in their ambitious purposes, until in time the reins of power fell into the hands of a few great families, who fought furiously with one another for the control.
The change began in the appointment by Sujin of shoguns or generals over the military departments of the government.
While war continued, the shoguns were content to let the Fujiwara lord it at court, themselves preferring the active labors of the field.
Others were deposed, and neither mikados nor shoguns were permitted to reign except as puppets in the hands of the powerful regents of the realm.
In Japan the emperors lived in retirement, and it was the dynasties of shoguns or generals that suffered change.
When Iyemitsu died, the shoguns had cemented their power beyond dispute.
Fire completed what the sword had begun, destructive flames attacked the frame dwellings of the city, and in a few hours the great capital of the shoguns and their powerful regents was a waste of ashes.
During the reigns of the succeedingshoguns a violent persecution began.
American-built Chinese bombers appeared over Kyushu, the first invaders to show up since the shoguns repelled Kublai Khan 656 years earlier.
The preventive psychological warfare system set up by the Tokugawa shoguns after 1636, which bottled up the brains of the Japanese through more rigorous control than has ever been established elsewhere over civilized people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shoguns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
