Learning from Shogun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy

Learning from Shogun: Japanese History and Western Fantasy, Edited by Henry
Smith, Program in Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California 93106), 1980. Free Download, PDF format.

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About Shogun: Shōgun (将軍, shōgun) is a military rank and historical title in Japan. The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. As a title, it is the short form of sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍:せいいたいしょうぐん, sei-i taishōgun?), the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to Emperor Meiji in 1867.

A shogun's office or administration is known in English as a "shogunate" or in Japanese as a bakufu (幕府:ばくふ, bakufu?), the latter of which literally means "an office in the tent", and originally meant "the house of a general", then suggests a "private government". The tent is symbolic of the field commander but also denoted that such an office was meant to be temporary.

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