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daimyo
daimyo [Jap.,=great name], the great feudal landholders of Japan, the territorial barons as distinguished from the kuge, or court nobles. Great tax-free estates were built up from the 8th cent. onward by the alienation of lands to members of the imperial family who could not be supported at court. ... Read more
bushido
bushido [Jap.,=way of the warrior], code of honor and conduct of the Japanese nobility. Of ancient origin, it grew out of the old feudal bond that required unwavering loyalty on the part of the vassal. It borrowed heavily from Zen Buddhism and Confucianism. In its fullest expression the code emphas... Read more
Chiba
Chiba , city (1990 pop. 829,455), capital of Chiba prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay. It is a manufacturing center noted for the production of steel, textiles, paper products, and plastics. It was the residence of the Chiba daimyo from the 12th to the 16th cent. The city retains an 8th... Read more
Tokugawa
Tokugawa , family that held the shogunate (see shogun ) and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867. Founded by Ieyasu, the Tokugawa regime was a centralized feudalism. The Tokugawa themselves held approximately one fourth of the country in strategically located parcels, which they governed directly thr... Read more
Ieyasu
Ieyasu (Ieyasu Tokugawa) , 1542-1616, Japanese warrior and dictator. A gifted leader and brilliant general, he founded the Tokugawa shogunate. Early in his career he helped Nobunaga and Hideyoshi unify Japan. In 1590 he received the area surrounding Edo (Tokyo) in fief, and he later made Edo... Read more
Nobunaga
Nobunaga (Nobunaga Oda) , 1534-82, Japanese military commander. The son of a daimyo , Nobunaga greatly expanded his father's holdings, becoming master of three provinces near present-day Nagoya. The emperor secretly appealed to him for help, and Nobunaga, acting in the emperor's name, became (156... Read more
Nobunaga
Nobunaga (Nobunaga Oda) , 1534-82, Japanese military commander. The son of a daimyo , Nobunaga greatly expanded his father's holdings, becoming master of three provinces near present-day Nagoya. The emperor secretly appealed to him for help, and Nobunaga, acting in the emperor's name, became (156... Read more
samurai
samurai , knights of feudal Japan, retainers of the daimyo . This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period. Samurai were privileged to wear two swords, and at one time had the right to cut down any... Read more
shogun
shogun , title of the feudal military administrator who from the 12th cent. to the 19th cent. was, as the emperor's military deputy, the actual ruler of Japan. The title itself, Sei-i-tai Shogun [barbarian-subduing generalissimo], dates back to 794 and originally meant commander of the imperial armi... Read more
Yoritomo
Yoritomo (Yoritomo Minamoto) , 1148-99, Japanese warrior and dictator, founder of the Kamakura shogunate. After a prolonged struggle he led his clan, the Minamoto, to victory over the Taira in 1185. He became (1192) the first shogun , established his bakufu (headquarters) at Kamakura, and rewarde... Read more

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daimyo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition daimyo [Jap.,=great name], the great feudal landholders of Japan...These estates were administered by territorial barons, or the daimyo. By the 12th cent. certain daimyo had become more powerful than the emperor himself. One, Yoritomo...
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1550s, however, a group of daimyos (regional barons) had succeeded...country. In 1568 one of these daimyos, Oda Nobunaga, entered Kyoto...Tokugawa Ieyasu, the young daimyo of a neighboring domain. When...Hideyori from the various leading daimyos, including Ieyasu. Yet no...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Gradually, however, a group of daimyos (barons) began to impose...1550s the greatest of these daimyos, having organized powerful...competition was Oda Nobunaga, a daimyo whose domain was located in...Judicious alliances with certain daimyos and successful attacks on others...
Oda Nobunaga
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...barons — known as daimyos — ultimately carved...the most important of these daimyos began to compete among themselves...against a powerful neighboring daimyo. As a result of this victory...would-be unifiers among the daimyos. Nobunaga entered Kyoto in...
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ieyasu, the Tokugawa shoguns exercised hegemony over some 260 daimyos, or regional barons, who in turn ruled their own virtually...heir in 1716, he was succeeded by Tokugawa Yoshimune, the daimyo of a branch family of the Tokugawa. Yoshimune had been a successful...
Tokugawa
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...governed directly through a feudal bureaucracy. To control the daimyo [lords], who owed allegiance to the Tokugawa but were permitted...Tokugawa invented the Sankin Kotai system which required the daimyo to maintain residence at the shogun's capital in Edo (Tokyo...
Tokyo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the shogun's palace, encircled by the residences of the daimyos [feudal barons], samurai , and merchants, dominated the...by the shogun's retainers and by the large retinues of the daimyos, who were obliged to divide their time between their regional...
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was the second son in a prosperous samurai family. (The samurai were professional warriors traditionally bound to a lord or daimyo.) When Chikamatsu was around ten years old, his father became a masterless samurai (ronin) and moved the family to Kyoto...
Yoritomo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...retainers with estates strategically located throughout the country. These fiefs later became the basis of the power of the daimyo . Aided by scholars drawn from the imperial court, which Yoritomo controlled, he set up an administrative network that soon...
samurai
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition samurai , knights of feudal Japan, retainers of the daimyo . This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated...

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daimyo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History daimyo (Japanese, ‘great names...period, and territorial disputes between daimyo threatened Japan's unity. A reallocation...SHOGUNATE (1600–1878) the daimyo continued to exercise local control over...
daimyo bond
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management daimyo bond A bearer security issued on the Japanese markets and in the eurobond market by the World Bank .
Tokugawa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...founder, ensured supremacy by imposing severe restrictions on the daimyo (feudal lords). To avoid the effects of European intrusion...economy. An influential merchant class emerged whilst some daimyo and their SAMURAI were impoverished; some married into commercial...
Kagawa, Kyoko
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...fudo ; Ai no kane ; Ningen no kabe (Yamamoto); Nippon tanjo (Inagaki); Fuunji: Oda Nobunaga 1960 Oedo no kyoji ; Arakure daimyo ; Yurei hanjo-ki ; Hi-sen-ryo (Tanaka); Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well ; The Rose in the Mud ; The...
Oda Nobunaga
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Oda Nobunaga (1534–82) Japanese warrior, who overthrew many powerful DAIMYO in an attempt to end the disorder of the ASHIKAGA period. He was assisted by HIDEYOSHI and TOKUGAWA IEYASU - and by the fact that...
samurai
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History samurai (from Japanese, ‘those who serve’) Warrior retainers of Japan's daimyo (feudal lords). Prominent from the 12th century, they were not a separate class until Hideyoshi limited the right to bear arms...
Japan
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the late 16th century three warriors, Oda Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and TOKUGAWA IEYASU , broke the power of the feudal lords (daimyo), and Ieyasu's TOKUGAWA shogunate provided stable but repressive rule until the restoration of the emperor in 1868. Europeans...
Minamoto Yoritomo
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...rivals had already been killed on Yoritomo's orders, but his supporters were given estates and were to become the basis of the DAIMYO . On Yoritomo's death Hojo Tokimasa, whose daughter had married Yoritomo, made himself regent. By 1219 Yoritomo's own...
Meiji Restoration
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Mutsuhito, who resumed formal imperial rule in January 1868, moving his capital to Tokyo a year later. Thereafter, the feudal DAIMYO and SAMURAI systems were quickly dismantled, a Western-style constitution introduced, and a policy of government-sponsored...
Ashikaga
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Kamakura to Kyoto. The Ashikaga shoguns never exercised great power as the shogunate witnessed much fighting between rival DAIMYO and their SAMURAI armies. The increasing disorder of the Ashikaga shogunate ended in 1573 when ODA NOBUNAGA and his army drove...

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From Japan to the NGA: The World of the Daimyo
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/25/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...teahouses where feudal military lords, or daimyo as they are called in Japanese, retreated...Washington, where "Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868" will open Sunday...and Buddhist temples patronized by the daimyo and some descendants of the feudal lords...
Daimyo: First Rays of A Rising Sun; The National Gallery Gathers 400 Dazzling, Enigmatic Images of Japan's Feudal Glory
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/30/1988; ; 700+ words ; Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868," the exhibition...which of the two was dominant. The term daimyo, says Princeton scholar Martin Collcutt...referring to privately owned land)." The daimyo thus were the land-holding barons...
DAIMYO TO SHUT DOWN HURUM PAPIR
Magazine article from: PPI; 7/1/2007; ; 501 words ; NORWAY Daimyo will close down its subsidiary, Hururn...All confirmed orders would be processed. Daimyo failed to sell the business to any interested...board, Hans Aarre, told PPI This Week. Daimyo's subsidiary, Hurum Energigjenvinning...
Effect of summer flush leaves of the Daimyo oak, Quercus dentata, on density, fecundity and honeydew excretion by the drepanosiphid aphid Tuberculatus quercicola (Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae)
Magazine article from: European Journal of Entomology; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Matsumura), a non host-alternating species, lives on Daimyo oak, Quercus dentata Thumberg, and other species of oak...quercicola, a non host-alternating aphid is associated with Daimyo oak, Quercus dentata. In May, when the nutritional quality...
The Picture
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 12/24/2002; 700+ words ; ...Section: Telling Tales A visit from the daimyo's men Gombei watched all this but he said nothing. The daimyo was a hard and cruel man. If a villager...everything. It was too dangerous to ask the daimyo for his picture. Gombei went home and...
Director of `Samurai' Commits Hara-kiri.
Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea); 3/19/2001; 700+ words ; ...at this time consisting of the shogun, daimyo, and samurai. The relationship between the shogun and the daimyo was that of lord and vassal based on the...lords as a favor. To achieve the rank of daimyo, a warrior had to have substantial landholdings...
The legend of Amakusa Shiro.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Appleseeds; 1/1/2006; ; 695 words ; ...was the son of a poor family. The wealthy daimyo who owned and ruled their land lived far away. The daimyo, with their samurai armies, ruled huge...owners. They paid rent and taxes to the daimyo. Many farmers were not happy with their...
The Way of The Warrior
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/4/1988; ; 679 words ; JAPAN: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868 Edited by Yoshiaki...to explore the artistic legacy of the daimyo {`feudal' lord or `baron'} from...Tokugawa Ieyasu as the most powerful daimyo of Japan, the book is filled with pictures...
Hirado porcelain of Japan.(history of porcelain production in Japan)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...a Korean potter in the employ of the daimyo (feudal lord) of Hizen province (now...under the direct control of the Nabeshima daimyo mainly for the family's own use or to...succeeding generations of whom were the daimyo of the region. While we associate the...
Japan's Genteel Warriors
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/28/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...Under the shoguns were the warrior daimyo, landed aristocrats roughly equivalent to English barons. Except that the daimyo, perhaps the fiercest fighters the...the peaceful arts. Originally the daimyo were an uncouth lot, the baddest...