daimyo

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A lord during the Japanese feudal period
Any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan ( 10th-19th century). The term was originally applied to military lords who gained territorial control over the various private estates into which the country had been divided; later, in the 14th-15th centuries, daimyo acted as military governors for the Ashikaga shogunate (see Muromachi period). Though they held legal jurisdiction over areas as large as provinces, their private landholdings were relatively small. As the country descended into internecine war, daimyo tended to hold small but consolidated domains in which all the land belonged to themselves or their vassals. Gradually, through constant battles, fewer and fewer daimyo came to hold increasing amounts of territory. When Tokugawa Ieyasu completed unification of Japan in 1603, roughly 200 daimyo had been brought under Tokugawa hegemony. During the Tokugawa period (1603-1867), the daimyo acted as local rulers in three-fourths of the country. After the Meiji Restoration, the daimyo were converted into a pensioned nobility residing in Tokyo. See also han
The consort and advocate of the shogun, he is usually known to be the voice of the great shogun and part of the Shogun's inner circle A rarity that a shogun head off to deal with trivial affairs unless a war in general or treaty of any sort These are the ones who come before him, with the authority and power of the shogun behind them These guys do all the talking in the ranks of the Eremento-jin
Feudal lord
Nobles who owned large estates in the provinces A daimyo relied on samurai warriors to protect his estate
{i} great and most powerful Japanese feudal lords in Japan from the 12th century to the 19th century; great feudal landholder of Japan
a class of military nobles, in direct vassalage to the shogun, each heading a domain over 100,000 koku
A powerful feudal land owner Many Daimyo dreamed of uniting Japan under their own swords
An aristocrat similar to a Baron A daymio spent half his time in Edo, attending the shogun When the daymio went back to his domain, he had to leave his family as hostages
a feudal lord, the ruler of a domain (the feudal system was abandoned in the Meiji restoration, as you all surely know ^_^)
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