daimyo
daimyo (Japanese, ‘great names’)Japan's feudal lords. They expanded their samurai armies during the confusion of the Ashikaga period, and territorial disputes between daimyo threatened Japan's unity. A reallocation of fiefs under Hideyoshi had reduced their power by 1591 . The Tokugawa controlled much of their activity, although during this shogunate ( 1600 – 1878 ) the daimyo continued to exercise local control over domains comprising two-thirds of Japan. The new national government at the time of the Meiji...
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