shōgunate

plural shōgunates

1. alternativeAlternative form of shogunate.

   Fortunately the next shōgun, Iyenari (1787-1837), and his great councilor, Matsudaira Sadanobu, reverted to the strict policy of Yoshimune and the illustrious founders of the Tokugawa shōgunate.

   1906, “The Decline of the Edo Government: 1651-1837”, in Henry Cabot Lodge, K[an’ichi] Asakawa, editors, Japan: From the Japanese Government History […] (The History of Nations; VII), Philadelphia, Pa.: John D[ale] Morris and Company, →OCLC, part II (The Feudal Ages: 1186-1868), page 149

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   In this latter instance, as we know, came not the distant anathema of future generations, but the swift vengeance of war, the permanent humiliation, the exile to obscurity, of the Tokugawa family, and the abolition of the shōgunate and the dual system forever.

   1876, William Elliot Griffis, “The Ashikaga Period”, in The Mikado’s Empire, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, book I (History of Japan from 660 b.c. to 1872 a.d.), page 196

   The bureaucratic pretensions of the Nara and Heian periods, however, had given way to a more modest apparatus under the Kamakura and Muromachi shōgunates and in the struggle for territory and power literacy was less functional than it had been.

   1998, Peter Kornicki, “Literacy”, in The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, published 2001, →ISBN, chapter 6 (Authors and readers), section 2 (Readership), page 271