Meanings
nounshōgun (plural shōguns or shōgun)
plural shōguns
- alternativeAlternative form of shogun.
People were in a panic, and the two shōgun were grief-stricken and deeply afraid.
2019, Molly Vallor, Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen, Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 1471 more example
Two shōguns in particular, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408) and Yoshimasa (1436–1490), have left their villas, almost all that remain of their retirement temple complexes.
2000, J. Edward Kidder, Jr., “Kyoto”, in William M[ichael] Johnston, editor, Encyclopedia of Monasticism, volumes 1 (A–L), Chicago, Ill.; London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, page 732
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