shogunally

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adverb

By a shogun or shoguns.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adverbshogunally (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBy a shogun or shoguns.

    Also outlined are the genres and topoi most infected by Ran, particularly those associated with the Floating World (ukiyo) – that demimonde that existed on the peripheries of the shogunally sanctioned metropoles.

    1996, Timon Screech, “Introduction”, in The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan: The Lens within the Heart, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3, column 2
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    Unfortunately for Takauji's hopes of easy consolidation of power, Godaigo once again escaped custody. This time he fled to the rugged mountains around Yoshino well to the south of Kyoto. There he established a government in exile and thus provided the incentive for a continuing struggle between the adherents of the shogunally sponsored Northern Court in Kyoto and his own loyalist Southern Court at Yoshino.

    1981, James H. Sanford, “Ikkyū Sōjun: His Life and Times”, in Zen-man Ikkyū (Studies in World Religions; 2), Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, →ISBN, page 3

    After cutting his partner’s veins with a razor (with Sojun’s full consent, the record implies), Kinji turned the blade upon himself but, before he had a chance to expire, was discovered clinging to Sojun’s lifeless body by a villager passing through the shogunally administered forest where the incident took place.

    1999, Gregory M. Pflugfelder, “Outrageous Spectacles”, in Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600–1950, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, chapter 2 (Policing the Perisexual: Male-Male Sexuality in Edo-Period Legal Discourse), page 108

Origin

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