shogunate
- n a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
- The Japanese nobleman lived through the country's violent transition from the Heian aristocratic era to the martial Kamakura shogunate, and was surly, severe and infamously ugly .
- In 1867, a group of samurai toppled the last shogunate.
- The government under the Kamakura shogunate exiled him twice for predicting disasters and foreign invasions if the country's leaders did not stamp out competing sects.