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See also:SHOGUN (See also:Japanese for " generalissimo ") , in See also:Japan, originally merely the See also:style of a See also:general in command in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field, a See also:title which only gradually came into existence at the beginning of the 8th See also:century, the See also:mikado himself having previously been regarded as the only authority. The rise of a military class and of shoguns (generals) was a development coincident with the See also:division of supremacy between the Minamoto and Taira clans (see JAPAN: See also:History). In 1192 the See also:emperor Takahira made the Minamoto See also:leader, Yoritomo, a Sei-i-tai-shogun (" See also:barbarian-subjugating generalissimo ") or general-in-See also:chief, and this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office became stereotyped in the hands of successive See also:great military leaders, till in 1603 Lyeyasu See also:Tokugawa became shogun and established the Tokugawa See also:dynasty in See also:power. The shogunate from that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time till 1867 exercised the de facto See also:sovereignty in Japan, though in theory subordinate to the mikado. The revolution of 1867 swept away and abolished the shogunate and restored the mikado's supreme authority.
End of Article: SHOGUN (Japanese for " generalissimo ")
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