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    Shogun (English: /ˈʃoʊɡʌn/ SHOH-gun; Japanese: 将軍, romanizedshōgun, pronounced [ɕoːɡɯɴ] ), officially sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍, "Commander-in-Chief of...
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    period following the collapse of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ieyasu became the shōgun, and the Tokugawa clan governed Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city...
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    Tokugawa Yoshinobu (category 19th-century shōguns)
    known as Keiki; October 28, 1837 – November 22, 1913) was the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was part of a movement which aimed...
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  • manoeuvers and formations factor heavily into gameplay. The first of the series, Shogun: Total War, was released in June 2000. The most recent major game released...
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    William Adams (pilot) (category Advisors to Tokugawa shoguns)
    Portuguese ship. When Adams exposed this offer to defy the Shogun's orders to Lord Tokugawa, Roman Catholic priests asserted that Adams was lying and trying...
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    Tokugawa Ieyasu (category 17th-century shōguns)
    Matsudaira Takechiyo and later taking other names) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji...
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    HBO series Westworld (2018–2020). In 2024 he starred in the FX miniseries Shōgun as Yoshii Toranaga, a fictionalized version of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He has received...
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    notorious murder, he was somewhat disparagingly known as the "Nine Day Shogun". Mitsuhide was originally a bodyguard of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and later, one...
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    fourth shogun, was ill and the question of his succession arose. Ashikaga Yoshikazu, the 5th shogun, died of illness at the age of 19, so the 6th shogun was...
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    rule, the shōgun governed Japan. About 180 lords, known as daimyōs, ruled autonomous realms under the shōgun, and occasionally the shōgun called upon...
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    Kakuei Tanaka (redirect from Shadow Shogun)
    subsequent prime ministers, which led to him being called "Shadow Shōgun" (闇将軍, Yami-shōgun). A debilitating stroke he suffered in 1985 led to the collapse...
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    Muromachi period (category Ashikaga shōguns)
    bakufu), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi shōgun, Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336)...
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  • game engine to Shogun: Total War and Medieval: Total War, and redesigned the approach to the series. Set during the rise of the Roman Empire, the game's...
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    and influenced the young Emperor Meiji. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the sitting shōgun, realizing the futility of his situation, abdicated and handed over political...
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    reported to a military generalissimo (the late Roman equivalent to a pre-industrial-era Japanese shōgun). This anomalous structure had arisen through the...
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  • thousands of Japanese adhered. Church growth came to a halt in 1597 under the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi who, in an effort to isolate the country from foreign...
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  • influential work. Lone Wolf and Cub chronicles the story of Ogami Ittō, the shōgun's executioner who uses a dōtanuki battle sword. Disgraced by false accusations...
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    Nobunaga. Nobunaga unified much of Japan under his rule after defeating the Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshiaki and ending the Ashikaga shogunate; however, he was betrayed...
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    but little political power, to the pope, and the shōgun to secular European rulers (e.g., the Holy Roman emperor). In keeping with the analogy, they even...
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    Hosokawa Gracia (category 16th-century Roman Catholics)
    used Gracia as the model for the character of Mariko Toda in his novel Shōgun. Additionally Clavell gave the Japanese wife of Vasco Rodrigues (whose Japanese...
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  • Masada (miniseries) (category Television series set in the Roman Empire)
    success of the miniseries Roots that aired on the ABC Network in 1977, and Shogun, which aired on NBC in 1980. In the year 70 AD, with the fall of Jerusalem...
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  • Englishman to reach Japan. Among the first Westerners to become a samurai, under Shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu. Jan Joosten van Lodensteyn (1600, Dutch Republic) – Adams'...
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    stayed two years in Japan, during which time he twice visited Edo and the shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. He conducted extensive studies on local plants, many...
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    Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu a shogun was granted title of King of Japan for trade by the Ming emperor. However, the Shogun was a subject of the Japanese...
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  • Total War: Rome II (category Video games set in 1st-century Roman Empire)
    war—another part of the game completely redesigned. As with Total War: Shogun 2, the player is prompted with decisions throughout the game. The Creative...
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    "unequal treaty" and a sign of weakness. The prestige and legitimacy of the Shōgun, a de facto military dictator with nominal appointment from the Emperor...
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    his television roles as Macro in I, Claudius (1976), Vasco Rodrigues in Shōgun (1980), and Michael Malone in The Untouchables (1993). From 1995 to 1997...
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    drinking tea for curing') and presented it to Minamoto no Sanetomo, the third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, in 1214. At that time, tea was considered a kind...
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    Chael Sonnen (category Mixed martial artists utilizing Greco-Roman wrestling)
    Machida survives scare at UFC 104, retains belt with decision win over "Shogun" Rua". MMAjunkie.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved...
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    Bond (finance) (redirect from Shogun bond)
    Aksumite Achaemenid Byzantine Chinese Filipino Greek Indian Italian Japanese Roman Thai Tibetan Medieval currencies Production Mint Designers Coining Milling...
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