shogun
Sign in to save, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamakura period and Sengoku period when the shoguns themselves were figureheads, with real power in the hands of the of the Hōjō clan and of the Hosokawa clan. In addition, Taira no Kiyomori and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were leaders of the warrior class who did not hold the position of shogun, the highest office of the warrior class, yet gained the positions of and , t
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A shogun was the official military ruler of Japan, nominally appointed by the Emperor, who held actual governing power over the country for most of the period between 1185 and 1868. Though shoguns were typically the de facto rulers, their real authority varied over time, with power sometimes concentrated in the hands of other warrior families or leaders instead.
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- Etymology
- Titles
- History
- First shogun
- Heian period (794–1185)
- Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
- The regency political system and cloistered rule
- The first attempt to establish a warrior class government
- The birth of the first warrior class government
- Kamakura shogunate (1185–1333)
- Puppetization of the shogun by the ''shikken''
- Puppetization of the shogun by the ''tokusō''
- Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336)
- Ashikaga (Muromachi) shogunate (1336/1338–1573)
- Ōnin war and Sengoku period
- Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573–1603)
- Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868)
- The Bakumatsu era and the end of the shogunate and the warrior class
- Heirs of the Tokugawa shogun
- Timelines
- Timeline of the Kamakura shogunate
- Timeline of the Ashikaga shogunate
- Timeline of the Tokugawa shogunate
- Shogunate (''Bakufu'')
- Etymology
- Governance structure
- Relationship with the emperor
- Legacy
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
, officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamakura period and Sengoku period when the shoguns themselves were figureheads, with real power in the hands of the of the Hōjō clan and of the Hosokawa clan. In addition, Taira no Kiyomori and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were leaders of the warrior class who did not hold the position of shogun, the highest office of the warrior class, yet gained the positions of and , the highest offices of the aristocratic class. As such, they ran their governments as its de facto rulers.
The office of shogun was in practice hereditary, although over the course of the history of Japan several different clans held the position. The title was originally held by military commanders during the Heian period in the eighth and ninth centuries. When Minamoto no Yoritomo gained political ascendency over Japan in 1185, the title was revived to regularize his position, making him the first shogun in the usually understood sense.