将軍 (しょうぐん, shougun) Japanese meaning: general | Kotomoraた
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He was promoted to general in the army.
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Usage patterns
〈人〉が将軍になるfor someone to become shogun
Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun at the start of the Edo period.
将軍に任命されるto be appointed as general/commander
He was appointed as a general while still young.
将軍の座を継ぐto inherit the position of shogun
The son succeeded his father and inherited the shogunate.
power behind the throne; éminence grise; kingmaker; wire-puller; shadow shogun
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lion-hearted general; fierce general
triumphant general; general returning in triumph
commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force against the eastern barbarians
