Shogun

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 119. Nicht dargestellt. Kapitel: Minamoto No Yoritomo, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ienobu, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Tokugawa Ienari, Tokugawa Ieshige, Tokugawa Iesada, Ashikaga Takauji, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokugawa Ieharu, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Ashikaga Yoshinori, Tokugawa Hidetada, Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Ashikaga Yoshitane, Kujo Yoritsune, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Minamoto No Yoriie, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Ashikaga Yoshihide, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Koreyasu, Munetaka, Morikuni, Hisaaki, Tokugawa Iemochi, Kujo Yoritsugu. Auszug: Shogun shogun) ·) (literally, "a commander of a force") is a military rank and historical title for (in most cases) hereditary military dictator of Japan. The modern rank is equivalent to a Generalissimo. Although the original meaning of "shogun" is simply "a general", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishogun ¿¿¿¿¿, the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867. A shogun's office or administration is known in English as a "shogunate". In Japanese it was known as bakufu ) which literally means "tent office", and originally meant "house of the general", and later also suggested a private government. Bakufu could also mean "tent government" and was the way the government was run under a shogun. The tent symbolized the field commander but also denoted that such an office was meant to be temporary. The shogun's officials were as a collective the bakufu, and were those who carried out the actual duties of administration while the Imperial court retained only nominal authority. The term seii taishogun means "great general who subdues barbarians". Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate, seized considerable power and land from the aristocracy in Kyoto. He became the practical ruler of Japan, and received the title sei-i taishogun. Thereafter, the heads of three successive shogunates received the same title. After the downfall of the Kamakura Shogunate, certain conditions had to be met in order for a warlord to be bestowed the title of shogun. First and foremost, the warlord had to descend from the Minamoto clan. Secondly, all of Japan had to be unified under a single warlord, or daimyo. If a daimyo unified Japan, and was not of Minamoto descent, then he would be given the title of "regent". In formal diplomatic communications with foreign countries, the title taikun, the source of the English word tycoon, was used. Originally, t