Daimyos

Mr. Hosokawa explains that, unlike most other daimyos, or feudal nobility, his family had the good fortune of stability due to strategic political maneuvering which kept warfare, and thus destruction of property, at a minimum. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What tips the balance for me, besides the strong Korean tradition that it was iron clad, is that in 1593, the Japanese government placed levies on the daimyos to supply iron plate for building warships! ❋ Unknown (2005)

Kido Kin (1833–77) and kubo Toshimichi convinced the daimyos of Satsuma, Chsh, Tosa, and Hizen to offer their lands to the emperor as a step toward the public abolition of feudalism. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The feudal lords, or daimyos, were divided into three groups: shinpan, fudai, and tozama. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The shinpan daimyos were all the related and collateral branches of the larger Tokugawa house; fudai were the vassals and allies of Ieyasu before the Battle of Sekigahara, and they now occupied the central provinces; and tozama were those who submitted only after Sekigahara and were located in more remote regions, usually excluded from the central government. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The system of “alternate attendance, ” by which all daimyos were compelled to reside half of each year in Edo, was greatly curtailed, and the western lords began to congregate around the court in Kyoto. ❋ Unknown (2001)

His forebears were daimyos, feudal lords, until feudalism and the samurai class was abolished in 1870 and modern Japan began. ❋ Clavell, James (1981)

In the old days the daimyos ruled parts of the country in the name of the emperor. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- (1977)

Japan was run by daimyos once but then they had titles like count or duke. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- (1977)

The titles have gone but the daimyos go on ruling. ❋ Van De Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- (1977)

The daimyos were not allowed to attend the common theatre, but they could go to the Kanjin-No. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Then all the daimyos present take off their "kata-ginus" and give them to the chief actors, and thus ends the ceremony of ❋ Unknown (1916)

The daimyos and even their wives and daughters could see ❋ Unknown (1916)

And for this performance he had the right to certain dues and levies on the daimyos and on the streets of the people of Yedo. ❋ Unknown (1916)

In the palaces of the daimyos, also, they had their proper ceremonies. ❋ Unknown (1916)

The next day the tayus, or chief actors, take the robes back to the daimyos and get money in exchange for them. ❋ Unknown (1916)

Recognizing that the strategic position of the town would enable him to dominate the daimyos of the south and west, he determined to make Osaka his capital, and built on the site of the great Buddhist monastery the Castle of Osaka — an admirable example of old Japanese architecture. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

To a list of 268 ruling daimyos is added a list of 104 "inkyo." ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

The abdicating proclivities of the nation in pre-Meiji times are well shown by the official list of daimyos published by the Shogunate in ❋ Sidney Lewis Gulick (1902)

Each samurai had a lord in which he served. The [Daimyo] were known for their skill as generals and military leaders. Following the [shogun], the [daimyo] were the most powerful rulers from the 10th century to the early 19th. The daimyo were only subordinate to the [Shogun] and only one man at a time could be Shogun. There were many daimyos all across Japan, but there was only one Shogun at a time. The samurai who had no lord were known as Ronin. ❋ ♫ Highway To Hell ♫ (2011)

[Daimyo] were like a version of a [nobleman] or a king in today's standards within their own domains and by their people they [ruled] over. ❋ Tokugawa (2008)

"In [Feudal] Japan You Were Spit Upon Unless You Were a [Daimyo] or [A Samurai] ❋ Ibble (2005)

Did you see that guy? he [obeyed] every word [his girlfriend] said! He was even [bowing] to her! Is she his daimyo or something??" ❋ Mypseudonymformyrealname (2010)

"[I am the] [Pantsless Daimyo]!" ❋ 3Pole (2008)