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plural shoguns or shogun
The supreme generalissimo of feudal Japan. quotations examples
The third is the Shogun who reygneth at the preſent, and hath rayſed the perſecution (whereof this booke intreateth) againſt the Chriſtians, and he as it ſeemeth is acknowledged as Lord of all the threeſcore and ſix Kingdomes of Iaponia.
1619, W. W. Gent, transl., A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, devided into two books