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Noun. 1. shogunate-a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.). dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, absolutism.
A shogun's office or administration is the shogunate, known in Japanese as the bakufu (å¹åº, literally tent office/government) , which originally referred to house of the general and later also suggested a private government under a shogun.he role of the emperor was ceremonial, similar to the position of the Japanese monarchy after the Second World War. A shogun was a military leader equivalent to a general, and at various times in the first millennium, shoguns held temporary power, but it became a symbol of military control over the country.