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

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...

son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's...

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...

Ashikaga shogunate, the de facto central government, declined and the sengoku daimyo (戦国大名, feudal lord of sengoku period), a local power, rose to power. The...

Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city of Edo (Tokyo) along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class. The Tokugawa shogunate organized Japanese society...

Shinpan (親藩) was a class of daimyō in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan who were certain relatives of the Shōgun. While all shinpan were relatives of the...

under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characterized...

五大老, Hepburn: Go-Tairō) was a group of five powerful feudal lords (大名, daimyō) formed in 1598 by the Regent (太閤, Taikō) Toyotomi Hideyoshi, shortly before...

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