Shoguns

Shoguns

By, Ben Shogun is the Japanese word for //general.// It is also a very high military rank in Japanese military. A shoguns administration is called a //bakufu,// or, in English, shogunate. The rank of shogun has about the same level of power as a generalissamo, a modern rank of Japanese rank.

History

[|Tokugawa Leyasu] was the first shogun. The ranking of Shogun was first started to be given out in the Heian period. The period started when the capital of Japan was moved to Heian Kyo.  Famous Shoguns

Tokugawa Leyasu: Tokugawa, as I said before, was the first shogun. He was born in the Mikawa province, Japan. His father was a Daimyo and his father and mother were step siblings. He married his first wife at age 16 and was ordered to fight a clan called the Oda clan. He won many of his fights until their leader was dead. Then he decided to ally with the clan.

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