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Shogunate

Shogunate \Sho*gun"ate\, n. The office or dignity of a Shogun. [Written also Siogoonate.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shogunate

1871, a hybrid, from Japanese shogun + Latinate suffix -ate (1).

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shogunate

n. The administration of a shogun.

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shogunate

n. a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny]

Usage examples of "shogunate".

In the process, the Hayashi family, in the generations after Razan, became securely fixed as the official Confucian advisers to the shogunate and the hereditary heads of a Confucian academy in Edo.

In philosophy, too, scholars expressed much diversity of opinion, often in opposition to Chu Hsi Neo-Confucianism, which, as we have seen, was officially championed as an orthodoxy by the shogunate from at least the late seventeenth century through its patronage of the Hayashi family of Confucian scholars.

Curiously, however, the work of Kokan and other pioneer Western-style painters seems to have fallen into obscurity, and some artists in the last years of the Tokugawa shogunate, after Japan had been opened by Perry, laboriously set about to learn Western painting on their own from the few foreign-language manuals they could acquire without being aware of what Kokan and his fellow proponents of Dutch Studies had already accomplished.

The Tokugawa shogunate claimed a monopoly on the minting of coins—my family lost its chief source of revenue.