But the Tokugawa warlords, the shoguns, went much further.

但德川军阀 幕府将军 做得远不止这些。

He was also said the shoguns breed these Akita for combat and hunting.

他说幕府将军豢养作为军和猎。

The true power was held by the shogun because he had command over the military.

真正的权力掌握在幕府将军手中，因为他手握兵权。

And the shogun exerted his power throughout the land with the help of 300 feudal lords called daimyo.

幕府将军在300位被称为“大名(日本封建时代的大领主)”的封建领主的帮助下在全国范围内行使权力。

The sword known as the Honjo Masamune represented the shogun in Japan during their most powerful period.

被称为本庄正宗的剑代表了日本最强大时期的幕府将军。

From the Egyptian pharaohs to the shoguns of Japan.

从埃及法老到日本幕府将军。

The tea house originally built in was used by shoguns and imperial court nobles who enjoyed the view and the relaxed atmosphere.

最初建造的茶馆是供幕府将军和朝廷贵族使用的，他们喜欢这里的景色和轻松的氛围。

Facing annihilation, the shoguns entire wealth was buried in six huge caskets 76 meters beneath the earth.

毁灭，幕府将军的全部财富被埋在地下 76 米的六个巨大棺材中。

For several months at a time, every feudal lord took his family and his retainers and went to live in Edo where he served the shogun directly.

一连好几个月，每个封建领主都要带着家人和侍从去江户居住，在那里直接侍奉幕府将军。

Although he deserved it, Kira was still a powerful official of the shogun, not to mention that any kind of violence was forbidden at Edo Castle.

虽然Kira罪有应得，但他仍是幕府将军的一个有权有势的官员，更不用说江户城禁止任何形式的暴力。

The Tokugawa shogun, head of the Japanese military government, requires all the regional rulers to alternate years between their castle town in the home domain and the capital city.

日本武家政府的最高领导者徳川将军要求所有地区的领主轮流往返领地与首府执行政务，进行 “参勤交代”。

It's said that the shoguns who had ruled Japan for hundreds of years knew that their empire was about to fall and be replaced by the Japanese emperor.

据说，统治日本数百年的幕府将军都知道，他们的帝国即将没落，取而代之的是日本天皇。

Edo, as Tokyo was first known, grew only when the Tokugawa shoguns chose it as their seat of power after consolidating control of Japan at the start of the 17th century.

17 世纪初德川幕府巩固日本的控制后，江户作为东京的最初名称，只有在德川幕府选择它作为他们的权力中心时才开始发展。

His family (and, most importantly, his heir) stayed in Edo whenever the daimyo left to look after his fiefdom and they were basically hostages of the shogun to ensure that the lord behaved himself.

无论大名何时离开江户，他的家人(最重要的是，他的继承人)都会留在江户，可以说就是幕府将军的人质，以此来约束幕府领主的行为。