Daimyo

Shimazu Nariakira, daimyo o Satsuma Domain, appears in this daguerreotype photograph bi Ichiki Shirō.

The Daimyo (大名, daimyō, pronoonced Aboot this soonddaimjoo (help·info)) wur the pouerfu territorial lairds in pre-modren Japan that ruled maist o the kintra frae thair vast, hereditary laund hauldins.

References

  1. ↑ Katsuro, Hara (2009). An Introduction to the History of Japan. BiblioBazaar, LLC. p. 291. ISBN 1-110-78785-5.