List of shoguns


This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military commanders, from the establishment of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868.

[Asuka period] / [Heian period] (709–1184)

Note: there are different shogun titles. For example Kose no Maro had the title of Mutsu Chintō Shōgun. Ki no Kosami had the title of Seitō Taishōgun in 789 which is less important than Sei-i Taishōgun. Ōtomo no Otomaro was the first person who was granted the title of Seii Taishōgun.
PortraitName
Shogun fromShogun until
1Kose no Maro
709709
2Tajihi no Agatamori
720721
3Ōtomo no Yakamochi
793794
6Sakanoue no Tamuramaro
797808
7Funya no Watamaro
811816
8Fujiwara no Tadabumi
940940
9Minamoto no Yoshinaka
11841184

[Kamakura shogunate] (1192–1333)

[Kenmu Restoration] (1333–1336)

[Ashikaga shogunate] (1336–1573)

Azuchi–Momoyama period (1568–1600)

The following were military dictators of Japan, de facto shoguns from 1568 to 1598. They unified the country, which at the start were a chaotic patchwork of warring clans.
PortraitName
de facto
shogun from		de facto
shogun until
1Oda Nobunaga
1568de jure
1575
de facto
1582
2Oda Nobutada
15751582
3Oda Hidenobu
15821583
1Toyotomi Hideyoshi
1585de jure
1592
de facto
1598
2Toyotomi Hidetsugu
15921595
3Toyotomi Hideyori
1598de jure
1603

From 1598 to 1600, the de facto shogunate was delegated to the Council of Five Elders.

[Tokugawa shogunate] (1600–1868)

Post-bakufu heads of the [Tokugawa clan] (1868–present)

In 1882, the head of the Tokugawa clan was given the title of Prince under the kazoku peerage system and permitted to sit in the House of Peers of the Imperial Diet. Two of them served as President of that body.
PortraitName
Head fromHead until
1Tokugawa Iesato
18681940
2Tokugawa Iemasa
19401963
3Tokugawa Tsunenari
1963Incumbent

Supreme Commanders for the Allied Powers

The Supreme Commanders were informally known as during their tenure.