shōgunal

See also: shogunal

English

Etymology

From shōgun +‎ -al.

Adjective

shōgunal (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of shogunal.
    • 1914, T[homas] Philip Terry, “The Kenchōji”, in Terry’s Japanese Empire [], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company [], →OCLC, section I (Central Japan), Route 2 (From Yokohama viâ Kamakura (Enoshima) to Yokosuka (Uraga and Misaki)), pages 31–32:
      Save for the thin wind which sighs and moans almost ceaselessly through the lofty trees (as if lamenting the vanished splendor of shōgunal days), a strange and penetrating melancholy, accentuated by the effects of a hoary antiquity, broods above the place, and suggests the mutability of temporal things.
    • 2000, Nam-lin Hur, “The Cultural Unity of Prayer and Play”, in Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensōji and Edo Society (Harvard East Asian Monographs; 185), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, →ISBN, chapter 2 (The Built-in Unity of Prayer and Play), page 78:
      Although after the ceremony a dinner was served in honor of the shōgun and a noh play was performed to amuse him, the early Tokugawa shōgunal onari preserved a strong political flavor.
    • 2019, Raúl Sánchez García, “The emergence of composite martial ryū during the Two Courts and the Warring States periods”, in The Historical Sociology of Japanese Martial Arts (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Warriors):
      Warriors coming from prominent lines such as the Ogasawara acted as archery teachers for the Ashikaga shōgunal house – something they have already performed during Kamakura: for example, Ogasawara Nagakiyo acted as Yoritomo’s archery teacher – and also the imperial family.