| Under this pressure, the last shogun resigned, and imperial troops easily subdued such Tokugawa forces as resisted. |
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| Yoritomo took the title of shogun, which had been a temporary commission from the emperor, and made it a permanent hereditary office. |
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| They span from the days of the samurai and shogun, to 1945 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. |
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| Keichu Tokugawa, son of a former shogun, was treated no differently in Judo training than any of Kano's other students. |
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| Its net worth was over a million dollars in the United States because it was an actual katana used by a shogun in ancient Japan. |
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| Lord Ieyasu received the title of shogun from the emperor in 1603, and opened his shogunate in Edo. |
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| In 1592 and 1597 the Japanese shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi embarked on disastrous invasions of Korea. |
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| They always had duel leadership the emperor as a figurehead, and shogun as a real leader. |
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| The shogun receives authority over the people of Japan as a trust from heaven. |
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| From then effective power lay with the shogun rather than the emperor. |
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| I am instructed to deliver it to the shogun as soon as possible. |
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| Before, Great-Grandfather was only a low-ranking samurai, but after he saved the shogun, he bestowed upon him his name, and that is how we are today. |
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| The Daimyo of Nagaoka, an ally of the shogun, possessed two Gatling guns and several thousand modern rifles. |
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| How can you farm out a player with a shogun helmet? |
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| It's the story of a group of samurai whose lord has been put to death — ordered to commit hara-kiri — by the shogun, and whose castle has been confiscated. |
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| In order to assure a smooth succession, the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, named his third and most even-tempered son, Hidetada, to the shogunate in 1605, two years after the establishment of the Tokugawa regime. |
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| Incident DS-0525-11 Feb 95: A 410 shogun and a Winchester 30-30 rifle were stolen during a Break and Enter at a Permanent Married Quarter at CFB Halifax. |
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| But the refusal of the emperor to confer the title of shogun bought about him a confrontation between the two parties with the victory of the general who exiled the emperor and took the title of shogun. |
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| Moreover, this mingling of daimyo and shogun formed closer bonds than most feudal lords elsewhere shared with their kings. |
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| The shogun class, not happy with Omura's views on conscription, assassinated him the following year. |
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| During Japan's shogunate, the emperor was notionally a supreme spiritual and temporal lord who delegated authority for joint rule to the shogun. |
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| When he became shogun in 1603, the town became the center of his nationwide military government. |
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| William Adams, the Liefde pilot who is known in Japan as Miura Anjin, met with future shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, who expressed interest in trading with the Netherlands. |
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| Shogun Lodge, his sword in one hand, countered the stroke of the heavy iron sword with an upward movement. |
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| But his old rival, Tokugawa Ieyasu, proved stronger and became the third and last pacifier of Japan and the first Shogun of the Tokugawa family. |
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| The femur in the left leg of one-and-a-half year old Shogun was broken into five pieces when a speeding car hit him two weeks ago. |
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| We have the Shogun of the Underworld, who like Ichi is blind and has learned to compensate for his sightlessness with abilities seeming to border on the mystical. |
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| Karen said they realised the seven-seater Shogun was gone on Tuesday morning and then received a phone call from the police to say it had been used in a ram raid. |
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| This improved fourth generation Mitsubishi Shogun offers a smarter look with loads of space, decent value for money and an unstoppable feel. |
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| From here the Dutch traded between China and Japan and paid tribute to the Shogun. |
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| Sweet potatoes were introduced as a food crop in Japan, and by 1735 were planted in Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune's private garden. |
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| In fact, like Land Rover's iconic Defender, the Mitsubishi Shogun is something of a long-serving utilitarian workhorse that stays true to its roots. |
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| Lotto Chavs can squander even the most outrageous fortune before you can say Burberry, Shogun and Croydon Facelift. |
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| Japan's first Shogun was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who, in 1603, used military might to put himself in power. |
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| They trained an elite corps, called the Denshutai, to fight on the side of the Shogun. |
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| Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. |
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