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((short description|Powerful feudal territorial lord in pre-modern Japan))
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[[File:Map Japan Genki1-en.svg|thumb|upright=1.5|A map of the territories of the [[Sengoku]] ''daimyō'' around the first year of the [[Genki (era)|Genki era]] (1570 AD).]]

((nihongo|'''''Daimyo'''''|大名|daimyō|((IPA-ja|daimʲoː|pronounciation|Ja-大名.oga)))) were powerful Japanese [[magnate]]s,<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/daimyo Daimyo]. ''Britanica''</ref> [[feudal]] [[lord]]s<ref>((cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FiHJX2FRg6sC&q=%22territorial+lord%22&pg=PA291 |page=291 |title=An Introduction to the History of Japan |first=Hara |last=Katsuro |publisher=BiblioBazaar, LLC |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-110-78785-2))</ref> who, from the 10th century to the early [[Meiji era|Meiji period]] in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the [[shogun]] and nominally to the [[Emperor of Japan|emperor]] and the ''[[kuge]]''. In the term, ((nihongo|''dai''|大)) means 'large', and ((Lang|ja-latn|myō)) stands for ((nihongo3||名田|myōden)), meaning 'private land'.<ref>''Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan'', entry for "daimyo"</ref>

From the ''[[shugo]]'' of the [[Muromachi period]] through the [[Sengoku period|Sengoku]] to the ''daimyo'' of the [[Edo period]], the rank had a long and varied history. The backgrounds of ''daimyo'' also varied considerably; while some ''daimyo'' clans, notably the [[Mōri clan|Mōri]], [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]] and [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]], were cadet branches of the Imperial family or were descended from the ''kuge'', other ''daimyo'' were promoted from the ranks of the [[samurai]], notably during the Edo period.

''Daimyō'' often hired samurai to guard their land, and they paid the samurai in land or food as relatively few could afford to pay samurai in money. The ''daimyo'' era ended soon after the [[Meiji Restoration]] with the adoption of the [[Prefectures of Japan|prefecture system]] in 1871.

==''Shugo-daimyō''==
[[File:斯波義将.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shiba Yoshimasa]] of [[Shiba clan]], one of the ''Shugo-daimyo''.]]

The ((nihongo|''shugo daimyo''|守護大名)) were the first group of men to hold the title daimyo. They arose from among the ''[[shugo]]'' during the [[Muromachi period]] (approximately 1336 – 1573). The ''shugo-daimyo'' held not only military and police powers, but also economic power within a [[Provinces of Japan|province]]. They accumulated these powers throughout the first decades of the Muromachi period.

Major ''shugo-daimyō'' came from the [[Shiba clan|Shiba]], [[Hatakeyama clan|Hatakeyama]], and [[Hosokawa clan]]s, as well as the [[tozama]] clans of [[Yamana clan|Yamana]], [[Ōuchi family|Ōuchi]], [[Takeda clan|Takeda]] and [[Akamatsu clan|Akamatsu]]. The greatest ruled multiple provinces.

The [[Ashikaga shogunate]] required the ''shugo-daimyo'' to reside in [[Kyoto]], so they appointed relatives or retainers, called ''[[shugodai]]'', to represent them in their home provinces. Eventually, some of these in turn came to reside in Kyoto, appointing deputies in the provinces.

The [[Ōnin War]] was a major uprising in which ''shugo-daimyo'' fought each other. During this and other wars of the time, ''kuni [[Ikkō-ikki|ikki]]'', or provincial uprisings, took place as locally powerful warriors sought independence from the ''shugo-daimyo''. The deputies of the ''shugo-daimyo'', living in the provinces, seized the opportunity to strengthen their position. At the end of the fifteenth century, those ''shugo-daimyo'' who succeeded remained in power. Those who had failed to exert control over their deputies fell from power and were replaced by a new class, the ''sengoku-daimyo'', who arose from the ranks of the ''shugodai'' and ''[[jizamurai]]''.

==''Sengoku-daimyō''==
((stack|[[Image:Odanobunaga.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Oda Nobunaga]], a powerful ''daimyō'' during the [[Sengoku]] period.]]))
((stack|[[File:Date Tanemune.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Date Tanemune]], a ''daimyō'' during the [[Sengoku]] period.]]))

Among the ((nihongo|''sengoku daimyō''|戦国大名)) were many who had been ''shugo-daimyō'', such as the [[Satake clan|Satake]], [[Imagawa clan|Imagawa]], [[Takeda clan|Takeda]], [[Toki clan|Toki]], [[Rokkaku clan|Rokkaku]], [[Ōuchi clan|Ōuchi]], and [[Shimazu clan|Shimazu]]. New to the ranks of the daimyo were the [[Asakura clan|Asakura]], [[Amago clan|Amago]], [[Nagao clan|Nagao]], [[Miyoshi clan|Miyoshi]], [[Chōsokabe clan|Chōsokabe]], Hatano, and [[Oda clan|Oda]]. These came from the ranks of the ''shugodai'' and their deputies.

Additional ''sengoku-daimyō'' such as the [[Mōri clan|Mōri]], [[Tamura clan|Tamura]], and [[Ryūzōji clan|Ryūzōji]] arose from the ''jizamurai''. The lower officials of the shogunate and [[rōnin]] ([[Later Hōjō clan|Late Hōjō]], [[Saitō clan|Saitō]]), [[Kokushi (official)|provincial officials]] (Kitabatake), and ''[[kuge]]'' (Tosa Ichijō) also gave rise to ''sengoku-daimyo''.((Citation needed|date=November 2007))

==Edo period==
[[File:Date_Munenari_(coloured).jpeg|thumb|[[Date Munenari]], eighth head of the [[Uwajima Domain]]]]
[[File:Kamei Koremi.jpg|thumb|upright|Kamei Koremi, a ''daimyō'' during the [[bakumatsu]] period.]]
The [[Battle of Sekigahara]] in 1600 marked the beginning of the [[Edo period]]. ''[[Shōgun]]'' [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]] reorganized roughly 200 daimyo and their territories into ''[[Han (Japan)|han]],'' which were assessed by rice production. Those heading ''han'' assessed at 10,000 ''[[koku]]'' (50,000 bushels) or more were considered daimyo. Ieyasu also categorized the daimyo according to their relation to the ruling Tokugawa family: the ''[[Shinpan (daimyo)|shinpan]]'' were related to the Tokugawa; the ''[[fudai]]'' had been vassals of the Tokugawa or allies in battle; and the ''[[tozama]]'' had not allied with the Tokugawa before the [[Battle of Sekigahara]] (did not necessarily fight against the Tokugawa).<ref>((cite book |last1=Flath |first1=David |title=The Japanese Economy |pages=23))</ref>

The ''shinpan'' were collaterals of Ieyasu, such as the [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]], or descendants of Ieyasu other than in the main line of succession. Several ''shinpan'', including the Tokugawa of [[Owari Province|Owari]] ([[Nagoya]]), [[Kii Province|Kii]] ([[Wakayama Prefecture|Wakayama]]), and [[Mito, Ibaraki|Mito]], as well as the Matsudaira of [[Fukui Prefecture|Fukui]] and [[Aizu]], held large ''han''.((citation needed|date=August 2021))

A few ''fudai daimyō'', such as the [[Ii clan|Ii]] of [[Hikone, Shiga|Hikone]], held large ''han,'' but many were small. The shogunate placed many ''fudai'' at strategic locations to guard the trade routes and the approaches to [[Edo]]. Also, many ''fudai daimyo'' took positions in the Edo shogunate, some rising to the position of ''[[rōjū]].'' The fact that ''fudai daimyo'' could hold government positions, while ''tozama'' in general could not, was a main difference between the two.((citation needed|date=August 2021))

''Tozama daimyō'' held mostly large fiefs far away from the capital, with e.g. the [[Kaga Domain|Kaga]] ''han'' of [[Ishikawa Prefecture]], headed by the [[Maeda clan]], assessed at 1,000,000 ''koku''. Other famous ''tozama'' clans included the [[Mōri clan|Mori]] of [[Nagato Province|Chōshū]], the [[Shimazu family|Shimazu]] of [[Satsuma Province|Satsuma]], the [[Date clan|Date]] of [[Sendai]], the [[Uesugi clan|Uesugi]] of [[Yonezawa, Yamagata|Yonezawa]], and the [[Hachisuka clan|Hachisuka]] of [[Awa Province (Tokushima)|Awa]]. Initially, the Tokugawa regarded them as potentially rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, marriages between the Tokugawa and the ''tozama'', as well as control policies such as ''[[sankin-kōtai]]'', resulted in peaceful relations.((citation needed|date=August 2021))

''Daimyō'' were required to maintain residences in Edo as well as their fiefs, and to move periodically between Edo and their fiefs, typically spending alternate years in each place, in a practice called ''[[sankin-kōtai]]''.((citation needed|date=August 2021))

==After the Meiji Restoration==
((stack|[[File:KurodaNagahiro.jpg|thumb|upright|Marquess [[Kuroda Nagahiro]], a ''daimyō'' of [[Fukuoka Domain]].]]))
((stack|[[File:Toshisada Maeda.jpg|thumb|upright|Viscount [[Maeda Toshisada]], the eldest son of Maeda Toshiaki, the final ''daimyō'' of [[Nanokaichi Domain]] in [[Kōzuke Province]].]]))
In 1869, the year after the Meiji Restoration, the daimyo, together with the ''kuge,'' formed a new aristocracy, the ''[[kazoku]]''.<ref>((Cite book|last=Norman|first=Herbert E.|title=Japan's Emergence as a Modern State – 60th anniv. ed.: Political and Economic Problems of the Meiji Period|date=2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-4187-0|pages=25–26))</ref><ref>((Cite book|last=McLaren|first=Walter Wallace|title=Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-99549-1|location=Oxon|language=en))</ref> In 1871, the [[Abolition of the han system|han were abolished]], and prefectures were established.<ref>((citation|title=Japan Encyclopedia|first1=Louis|last1=Frédéric|last2=Roth|first2= Käthe|isbn=978-0-674-01753-5|series=Harvard University Press Reference Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC|year=2002|publisher=Belknap|pages=141–142))</ref> In this year, around 200 daimyo returned their titles to the emperor, who consolidated their han into 75 prefectures.<ref name=":0">((Cite book|last=Nester|first=William R.|title=The Foundation of Japanese Power: Continuities, Changes, Challenges: Continuities, Changes, Challenges|date=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-48931-5|location=Oxon|language=en))</ref> Their military forces were also demobilized, with the daimyo and their samurai followers pensioned into retirement.<ref name=":0" /> The move to abolish the feudal domains effectively ended the daimyo era in Japan. This was effectively carried out through the financial collapse of the feudal-domain governments, hampering their capability for resistance.<ref>((Cite book|last=Huffman|first=James L.|title=Modern Japan: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Nationalism|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-8153-2525-3|location=Oxon|pages=4))</ref>

In the wake of the changes, many ''daimyō'' remained in control of their lands, being appointed as prefectural [[Governor (Japan)|governors]]; however, they were soon relieved of this duty and called en masse to Tokyo, thereby cutting off any independent base of power from which to potentially rebel.

Despite this, members of former daimyo families remained prominent in government and society, and in some cases continue to remain prominent to the present day. For example, [[Morihiro Hosokawa]], the former Prime Minister of Japan, is a descendant of the ''daimyō'' of [[Kumamoto]].((citation needed|date=August 2021))

==See also==
*[[Japanese clans]]
*[[History of Japan]]
*[[Daimyo Clock Museum]]

==References==
((reflist))

== External links ==
((Commons category|Daimyo))
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090705191859/http://www.asianart.org/Samurai.htm Lords of the Samurai: Legacy of a Daimyo Family]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080604113408/http://www.mcdougallittell.com/ml/ss.htm;jsessionid=HLTy2nNQC77z9JtRL1G2jFjVM1rF4rKv2pGqSpmTmcxSzGdTzXMF!490626194?lvl=4&ID=1006300000021087 World History: Patterns of Interaction]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080531025513/http://journal.ilovephilosophy.com/Article/Samurai--Ch--333-nin-and-the-Bakufu--Between-Cultures-of-Frivolity-and-Frugality-/2254 Samurai, Chōnin and the Bakufu: Between Cultures of Frivolity and Frugality.]

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