"Shogun" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... end of the social scale, a change analogous to that which has taken place under sundry despotisms. You know that in Japan, before the recent Revolution, the divine ruler, the Mikado, nominally supreme, was practically a puppet in the hands of his chief minister, the Shogun. Here it seems to me that "the sovereign people" is fast becoming a puppet which moves and speaks ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various |
