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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.
Before the Meiji restoration, Japan was a semi-feudal society run by the Tokugawa clan, a lineage of military overlords called the shogun (literally general).They had come to power in 1600 after a long period of civil war.he Meiji Restoration (1868) is called such because it restored direct imperial rule, i.e. rule by the Emperor of Japan.