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Japan's ultimate hyphenate: emperor's bodyguard who quietly became the boss.
means A hereditary military commander who actually ran Japan for centuries while the emperor kept the throne but not the power.
from From Japanese shōgun (将軍), literally 'army commander' — short for sei-i taishōgun, 'great general who subdues barbarians,' a title the imperial court granted to generals sent to fight frontier peoples. Over time the generals' power eclipsed the court's, and the title became the name for Japan's real ruler, with the emperor reduced to a sacred figurehead.
- literal meaning
- army-subduing great general
- emperor status
- emperor kept the throne, lost the power
- dynasty length
- tokugawa shoguns ruled 260 years, unbroken
- job ended
- abolished 1868 when meiji restoration hit