shoguns
[ (shoh-guhnz) ]
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Japanese military leaders who ruled the country from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries. There was still an emperor in Japan under the shoguns, but he was reduced to a mere figurehead.
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Words nearby shoguns
shog, shogi, shogun, shogunate, shogun bond, shoguns, shohet, shoji, Sholapur, Sholem Aleichem, Sholes
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