Shōgun of Ishikoku

The Shōgun (将軍) was the military dictator of Ishikoku. The shogunate was the administration or government, with the shōguns serving as de facto rulers of the country, although nominally they were appointed by the Emperor as a ceremonial formality. The shōgun held almost absolute power over territories through military means. The shogunate was been under the control of the Soga clan from the establishment of Ishikoku in 1633 to the nation's split into Nantou and Kitajima in 1847.
== History ==
Following over a decade of political struggle and military conquest, the Soga clan established complete control over all six of the Ishi Islands in the early 1630s. As the most powerful Ishi daimyō, the Soga would establish a shogunate in Rannobe to administer the newly unified Ishi state.
The Emperor Tomie protested the power grab of the Soga and sought to limit the control of the shogunate over state affairs. As part of the emperor's opposition, the imperial capital moved to Ashikama from 1630 to 1632. Under immense pressure from the Soga, Emperor Tomie was forced to abdicate in 1632 in favor a heir in another branch of the Sanjou clan. With the imperial household put into alignment with the new shogunate, the capital was returned to Rannobe and the state of Ishikoku was formally established in 1633.
== Shogunate ==
The term bakufu (幕府 "tent government") originally meant the dwelling and household of a shōgun, but in time, became a metonym for the system of government of a feudal military dictatorship, exercised in the name of the shōgun or by the shōgun himself.
The shogunate system was established under the Soga shogunate in 1633. The system has some feudal elements, with lesser territorial lords pledging their allegiance to greater ones. Samurai are rewarded for their loyalty with agricultural surplus, usually rice, or labor services from peasants. The hierarchy of this system of government together is reinforced by close ties of loyalty between the daimyōs, samurai and their subordinates.
While the Soga shogunate has held on to its top political position in Ishikoku since 1633, it has not been without power struggles and conflicts. Sources of competition have included the Emperor and the court aristocracy, the daimyōs, the shōen system, the great temples and shrines, the Shijie warrior monks, the military governors and stewards, and the rural lords.
== Lists ==
=== Ishikoku (Soga Shogunate) ===
#	Portrait	Name 	Reign
1	 	Soga Hironaga (蘇我広永) 	10 May 1633–8 Jun 1640
2	 	Soga Ujikata (蘇我氏型) 	8 Jun 1640–17 Dec 1671
3	 	Soga 	17 Dec 1671–4 Aug 1686
4	 	Soga 	4 Aug 1686–9 Jul 1704
5	 	Soga 	9 Jul 1704–11 May 1745
6	 	Soga 	11 May 1745–7 Apr 1761
7	 	Soga 	7 Apr 1761–1 Feb 1793
8	 	Soga 	1 Feb 1793–23 Jun 1805
8	 	Soga 	23 Jun 1805–28 Dec 1834
9	 	Soga Kagehiro (蘇我影広) 	28 Dec 1834–18 Aug 1846
Category:Politics of Ishikoku