shogun
shoh guhn
- n a hereditary military dictator of Japan; the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
- Yukio Hatoyama comes to office with much praised Cabinet choices, but political observers worry that his party's shadow shogun may try to exercise too much influence.
- Persecuted by the shogun, they still worship a "closetgod"On the picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old.
- The shogun's court at Edo received various dispatches from pairs of strong-legged runners, one of whom carried state documents in a lacquered box while the other bore a lantern .