Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: [daimʲoː] ) were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period...

the country, particularly smaller regions, daimyō, and samurai were more or less identical, since daimyō might be trained as samurai, and samurai might...

Tozama daimyō (外様大名, "outside daimyō") was a class of powerful magnates or daimyō (大名) considered to be outsiders by the ruler of Japan during the Edo...

Fudai daimyō (譜代大名) was a class of daimyō (大名) in the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府) of Japan who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa before the Battle...

island of Dejima in Nagasaki, beginning a period of isolation. From 1635, daimyō had to spend alternating years in the capital Edo, where their family was...

Domain. Non-daimyō relatives, such as the Gosankyō, were also known as kamon – thus the shinpan lords were alternatively known as kamon daimyō (家門大名). Shinpan...

fudai daimyō, while those who pledged allegiance to him after the battle (after his power was unquestioned) were known as tozama daimyō. Tozama daimyō were...

became daimyō of the Chōshū Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. After the Meiji Restoration with the abolition of the han system and daimyō, the Mōri...

Ashikaga shogunate, the de facto central government, declined and the sengoku daimyo (戦国大名, feudal lord of Sengoku period), a local power, seized wider political...

clan and launched a war against other daimyō to unify Japan in the 1560s. Nobunaga emerged as the most powerful daimyō, overthrowing the nominally ruling...

A daimyō collection is a collection mostly of the property or former property of daimyō, or feudal aristocrat families of Japan, which are now open to...

and peasants fleeing to other territories. The ninth daimyō, Yamauchi Toyochika and the 13th daimyō, Yamauchi Toyoteru attempted reforms based on fiscal...

Japan from 1603 to 1868 during the Edo period. It was formerly a powerful daimyō family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a...

were all daimyō chosen due to their relation to the taikō and the amount of power they held in the country. Hideyoshi chose powerful daimyō to prevent...

December 26, 1897) was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period, who ruled the Satsuma Domain as its 12th and last daimyō until 1871. He succeeded his father...

the shinpan daimyō of the Aizu-Matsudaira clan, a local cadet branch of the ruling Tokugawa clan, but was briefly ruled by the tozama daimyō of the Gamō...

the court ranks were used to control the daimyo. The daimyō were samurai feudal lords. The daimyō were high-ranking members of the samurai, and, similar...

capital of Heian-kyō (Kyoto) as de facto military dictators along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class. The Ashikaga shogunate began the Nanboku-chō...

1868, the starting year of the Meiji period. Under the reform, all daimyos (大名, daimyō, feudal lords) were required to return their authority to the Emperor...

held leadership positions in their villages, and became vassals of sengoku daimyō (戦国大名). Their status was half farmer, half bushi (samurai). On the other...

This is a list of daimyōs from the Sengoku period of Japan. Nanbu Nobunao Nanbu Toshinao Tsugaru Tamenobu Date Harumune Date Terumune Date Masamune Date...

applied to the tozama daimyō, but expanded to apply to all daimyō by 1642. One of the key goals of this policy was to prevent the daimyō from amassing too...

ended a dynasty of daimyōs. When the Hōjō clan were defeated at Odawara in 1590, Hideyoshi insisted on the suicide of the retired daimyō Hōjō Ujimasa and...

the majority of daimyō armies, so they accounted for the majority of ronin.[citation needed] Especially in the Sengoku period, daimyō needed additional...

Nariakira (島津 斉彬, April 28, 1809 – August 24, 1858) was a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) of the Edo period, the 28th in the line of Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma...

controls on the daimyōs, and the alternate attendance system, which required each daimyō to spend every other year in Edo. Even so, the daimyōs continued to...

rulers, later called daimyōs. In time, a balance of power evolved between the shōgun and the daimyōs; the three most prominent daimyō families rotated as...

1st daimyō of Kaga (cr. 1583) (1539–1599; r. 1583–1599) II. Toshinaga, 2nd daimyō of Kaga (1562–1614; r. 1599–1605) III. Toshitsune, 3rd daimyō of Kaga...

(1665–1705) 4th daimyō of Kishū and married Tsuruhime, daughter of 5th shōgun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi Jirokichi Tokugawa Yorimoto (1680–1705) 5th daimyō of Kishū...

1558 – November 6, 1600) was a Japanese daimyō who served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Known as a Kirishitan daimyo, he is notable for his role as the vanguard...