HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Shogun
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Samurai
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Daimyo
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Emperor
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Detailed explanation-1: -A. The word “shogun” is a title that was granted by the Emperor to the country’s top military commander. During the Heian period (794-1185) the members of the military gradually became more powerful than the court officials, and eventually they took control of the whole government.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Emperor and the Shogun were the highest ranking nobles. During Japan’s feudal period the Shogun held the most power while the Emperor was more of a puppet figure with little actual power.
Detailed explanation-3: -The shoguns maintained stability in many ways, including regulating trade, agriculture, foreign relations, and even religion. The political structure was stronger than in centuries before because the Tokugawa shoguns tended to pass power down dynastically from father to son.
Detailed explanation-4: -Shōgun (1603–1605) On March 24, 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu received the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei. Ieyasu was 60 years old. He had outlasted all the other great men of his times: Oda Nobunaga, Takeda Shingen, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Uesugi Kenshin.