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shogunal

shogunal

English

Adjective

shogunal (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to a shogun.
    • 1994, Mary Elizabeth Berry, The culture of civil war in Kyoto, Diane Publishing, page 35:
      ordered to comply with shogunal demands in accord with the law...
  2. Resembling a shogun.
    • 1975, James B. Palais, Politics and policy in traditional Korea, Harvard University Press, pages 11-12:
      the military-aristocratic Ch'oe family, which passed its shogunal type authority down hereditarily through four generations.