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In Japanese eyes, samurai swords used to be regarded as the work of gods.
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Japan's Gish and Sabbat often pose among bamboo stalks, wielding samurai swords and Asian-motif symbology.
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A flat screen television hangs from the wall alongside replica samurai swords and photographs of landscapes.
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I wandered over to the nearest display case and looked in at a selection of samurai swords.
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Tapestries, gold vases, and even a pair of samurai swords were placed in different areas of the room.
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The shogun has directed you are to be brought to the court.
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He did not seek the title of shogun, and never received it.
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Regent or shogun bowed down before it: divinity could not be usurped.
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Then began the reign of the Minamoto regents, or rather shogun.
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So your family may be doubly useful to the shogun.
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Their title of shogun is well known to Western readers.
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That is not the only thing on the shogun's mind.
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After the shogun's death, Ginkaku-ji became a Zen Buddhist temple.
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Three only of the Minamoto shogun really exercised rule.
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Kenji noticed with amusement that the carved shogun bore more than a passing resemblance to Nakamura.
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You are exhausted, spent from battling the armies of your sworn enemy -the evil shogun.
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Who was this arrogant blood drinker shogun who thought he could tell Cyril what to do?
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In Japan in 1493, the shogun was under siege in Kyoto as warlords divided the empire between them.
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But first this fell under the strict control of the shogun, and from there it was gradually choked off.
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No emperor or regent or shogun had ever been able to impose his rule firmly upon the whole country.
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Abram fixed his rapt attention on the "steel shogun," as the press of the time called the industrialist.