shikken

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Japanese 執権

Noun[edit]

shikken (plural shikkens or shikken)

  1. (historical) A member of the Hōjō clan who served as regent of the shogunate, from 1199 to 1333, during the Kamakura period.