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English
Noun
shōgun (plural shōguns or shōgun)
- Alternative form of shogun
2000, J. Edward Kidder, Jr., “Kyoto”, in edited by William M[ichael] Johnston, Encyclopedia of Monasticism, volumes 1 (A–L), Chicago, Ill., London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, page 732: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.
2019, Molly Vallor, Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 147:People were in a panic, and the two shōgun were grief-stricken and deeply afraid.
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Japanese
Romanization
shōgun
- Rōmaji transcription of しょうぐん