Iyemitsu suggested that all the daimios should make Yedo their place of residence for half the year.
Many of the daimios and their retainers, let loose from their prison, deserted the cause of their recent lord.
The daimios no longer bade their followers to become Christians.
But as the years went on the daimios became more and more like prisoners on parole.
Below the daimios came the hatamoto, or supporters of the flag, direct vassals of the shogun, of whom there were eighty thousand in Japan, mostly descendants of proved warriors and with a train of from three to thirty retainers each.
Hither, in September, 1871, the daimios were once more summoned, and the order was issued that they should give up their strongholds and feudal retainers and retire to private life.
Under them were daimios of smaller estate, many of whom had joined him in his career; and lower still a large number of minor military holders, whose grants of land enabled them to bring small bodies of followers into the field.
By this time many of the noted warriors among the daimios were dead, and their sons, enervated by peace and luxury, could be dealt with more vigorously than would have been safe to do with their fathers.
For over two centuries the daimios had been forced to reside in Yedo.
Gold was used freely as an agent in conversion, and the Christian daimioscompelled their subjects to follow them in accepting the new faith.
My proposal was that the Tycoon should descend to his proper position as a great territorial noble, and that a confederation of daimios under the headship of the Mikado should take his place as the ruling power.
When a very young man Yamagata was a spearman in the army organized by the daimios of Choshu to attack the foreign ships at the Shimonoseki Straits.
The daimios have furnished few of the men of prominence in modern Japan, nearly all of the leaders in government, education, literature and the professions having come from the samurai class.
Some of the early pictures show the gorgeous dress of the daimios and portray the elaborate ceremony employed on state occasions.
After the destruction of Ozaka the shoguns adopted the policy of detaining for stated periods, at court, the daimios of the several provinces or some members of their families.
Disquieting rumours were also afloat of a confederacy of the southern daimios against the shogun.
Along this beautiful road are constantly passing Daimios and their hosts of retainers, trains of travellers and pilgrims, and a large portion of the island traffic of the empire.
Nor is much danger attached to this, as the passing of Daimios whom it would be dangerous to meet on the tokaido, is always notified by the authorities to the consul.
The Council of Daimios was now and then summoned either by the Emperor or by the Shogun.
This memorial was signed by the Daimios of Kago, Hizen, Satsuma, Choshiu, Tosa, and some other Daimios of the west.
Thus were the fiefs of the most powerful and most wealthy Daimios voluntarily offered to the Emperor.
From this time the council of Daimios was held every year, sometimes many times in the year, till the Revolution of 1868.
As the Daimios had far more weight in the political scale of the realm than the Kuges, so the council of the Daimios was of far more importance than that of the Kuges.
Its leaders, the Daimios of provinces, were, with a few exceptions, men of no commanding importance.
Notably among them were theDaimios of Satsuma, Choshiu, Tosa, and Hizen.
In this early period many of them found employment in the schools of the various daimios and in those of the national government.
In 1871 the daimiates were abolished and the old daimiosretired to private life.
It was over this road that the ancient daimios of the western provinces used to journey, with gorgeous pageantry and splendid retinues, to the shogun's court.
Many of these daimios were great and powerful, able to wage war with the shogun himself.
Two daimios had accepted it, and were doing all in their power to aid the missionaries in their provinces.
Some of the daimios expressed to them a desire to have the Christian religion taught to their people; and Xavier no {147} sooner heard of this than he set out for Japan, accompanied by the native convert Anjiro.
Finally the imperial court at Kyoto, prompted by the mighty daimios of Choshu, Satsuma, and Tosa, decided upon the abolition of the shogunate.
When Christianity first came many of the daimios took especial pains to examine into it to see if it were likely to benefit their country, with the full intention of accepting it.
The insurrection of 1868 also saw the downfall of the Daimios or feudal princes of Japan.
According to Griffis: "Daimios often spent extravagant sums upon a single sword and small fortunes upon a collection.
In the good old days of the Daimios there lived an old couple whose only pet was a little dog.
The Daimios were always at enmity with one another, and their government was a period of petty warfare.
The hostile Daimios, in the name of the Mikado, were, in fact, putting strong pressure on the Tycoon, while those Daimios who had favoured the treaties had been punished by confiscation of their revenues.
His latest instruction to Sir Rutherford Alcock on his departure from England was, "You will in any case require from the Tycoon and the Daimios the execution of the treaty.
He says the treaties were not sanctioned by the Mikado, and that therefore the opposition of the Daimios was on strictly legitimate lines.
Each of these territorial magnates or great Daimios is practically independent of the Tycoon when within his own territory, with power of life and death over all his subjects and dependants; .
It was evident that the authority of the Tycoon over the great Daimios was far from absolute, and that at any rate he dared not enforce it in defence of the hated foreigners.
To require from the Tycoon and the Daimios the execution of the engagements of the treaty.
The councils of the Daimios bore a rough analogy to the consultations with the governors and governors-general of China.
In that sentiment there was no difference between Tycoon and Mikado, the Daimios attached to the one and those attached to the other: they were only divided as to the time and the means, the risks and the consequences.
Like the Daimios and Samourai, the sacred Geisha is rapidly becoming a memory only in the Japan of to-day.
The Daimios had surrendered their land to the Emperor and received in return modern titles of nobility, and incomes calculated on their former revenues.
True, the daimios lived and travelled with great state and had armies of retainers, but at least one great noble confessed to me that the freedom which he then enjoyed fully compensated him for the loss of former grandeur.
It was here, later on in my girlhood, that I saw the first Japanese Embassy to England, stately Daimios or Samurai in full native costume and with two swords--a great joy to all of us children.
This question I asked the guide, who plunged me in a tangle of Daimios and Shoguns, all manifestly extracted from a guide-book.
He showed us the banners and insignia ofdaimios long since dead, while our jaws drooped in ignorant wonder.
Arima was one of the daimios or landed nobleman, nearly three hundred in number, out of whom has been formed the new nobility of Japan, a certain number of which are in the Upper House of the Imperial Diet.
In the third game, five or six boys represent the various grades of rank, from the peasant up to the great daimios or shogun.
Some of the daimios remembered the military ardor of their ancestors, and wanted to fight the barbarians, rather than make a treaty with them.
After hours of debate and discussion he chose two daimios to receive the letter of the American President, Millard Fillmore, and sent word to all coast towns to man their forts.
This law was repealed, and all the rich daimios hurriedly built war-ships.
He allowed his captains and two daimios to arrange a meeting to be held at a little town called Kurihama, near the port of Uraga.
Orders were sent to the Daimios to muster the full strength of their retainers and munitions of war, for "if Japan does not conquer, it will be a great disgrace.
Letters were sent to all the Daimios and Ometkis, requesting their opinions as to the reception to be given to the Americans.
The daimios always hate him who is in power," replied the other with composure, "and burn to oust him.
What would the other daimios say, who were eagerly watching the next move, if the ruler were again to give way,--to succumb like a woman before the outcry of a few rustics?
In the mutual jealousy of the Daimios lay his chief safeguard.
So long as Mikado and Daimios remained quiescent, the swash-bucklers could not be used against them, and, unemployed they would soon be a source of trouble.
In time of peace most of the minor offices of the Tycoon's government were filled by Hatamotos, the more important places being held by the Fudai, or vassalDaimios of the Shogun.
Footnote 75: The family of the Prince of Hizen, one of the eighteen chief Daimios of Japan.
The great Daimios and the Hatamotos have fallen out about this affair of Matagorô, and lately it has seemed as if they meant to come to blows.
We have for some time had cause to complain of the scorn with which the Daimios have treated us.
The story of Kazuma's revenge is mixed up with events which at the present time are peculiarly significant: I mean the feud between the great Daimiosand the Hatamotos.
The revolution which has ended in the triumph of the Daimios over the Tycoon, is also the triumph of the vassal over his feudal lord, and is the harbinger of political life to the people at large.
So he built a house at Hanakawado, in Asakusa, and lived there with his apprentices, whom he farmed out as spearsmen and footmen to the Daimios and Hatamotos, taking for himself the tithe of their earnings.
Daimios and Hatamotos, as a matter of course, and the higher retainers of the Shogun, disembowel themselves in the palace: retainers of lower rank should do so in the garden.
The great Daimios are in the habit of attaching wrestlers to their persons, and assigning to them a yearly portion of rice.
In Japan the Daimios and the currency served their turn.
Owing to the troubled state of the country, the presence of the daimios at Yedo was formerly very necessary.
One of the most resolute and powerful of the daimios who hold that it were better to die fighting rather than yield the points in dispute, is Shimadzu Sabara, Prince of Satzuma.
Daimios or military nobles and their ex-retainers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daimios" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
