Shogun

Shōgun (将軍 shōgun?) listen  is a military rank and historical title in Japan. The modern rank is equivalent to a general. As a title, it is the short form of sei-i taishōgun (征夷大将軍:せいいたいしょうぐん?), the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to Emperor Meiji in 1867.

A shogun's office or administration is known in English as a "shogunate" or in Japanese as a bakufu (幕府:ばくふ?), the latter of which literally means "an office in the tent", and suggests a "private government". The tent is symbolic of the field commander but also denoted that such an office was meant to be temporary.