Henceforward the daimyo of the provinces, and such of their kinsfolk as are men of distinction subordinate to them, may ride without applying for Government permission.
It is true that the fiefs (hari) had been converted into prefectures (ken), and it is also true that the daimyo had become mere governors.
During the administration of the third shogun, every daimyo was required to adhere to a definite sect of Buddhism, and to the Buddhist and Shinto temples was entrusted the duty of keeping an accurate census of their parishioners.
The offices of minister and junior minister were necessarily filled by daimyo who were hereditary vassals of the shogun.
Again, although the tozama daimyo received tolerably munificent treatment in the matter of estates, their resources were seriously crippled by the imposition of costly public works.
The Daimyo was exultant, for no obstacle was in the way of his desire.
Seven generations ago the Daimyo of Izumo made his first official visit to the temples of Hinomisaki, and was entertained royally by the Kengyo.
Whenever a daimyo traveled to Yedo, the capital, he was treated almost as a god by the people.
These and other noble qualities of the present Emperor have, without doubt, done much toward transferring the loyalty of the people from the local daimyo to the national throne.
Loyalty to the daimyo was the vital part of the religion of the past, as loyalty to the Emperor is the vital part of the popular religion of to-day.
The samurai who lived wholly on the bounty of the daimyo led of course a tranquil life, at least so far as anxiety or toil for daily rice and fish was concerned.
To be specific, let us note that in feudal times there were some 270 daimyo living in the utmost luxury.
Furthermore, the accommodations required to keep the daimyo and their families in the capital city of Edo called for artisans and merchants in great number.
Throughout much of the century the provincial daimyo warlords and their samurai warred up and down the length of the land, supporting first one emperor, then another.
Scarcely had the Daimyo returned to his domains when he began to devise means for the ruin of the Kengyo.
Among the samurai of the Matsue clan in the time of Nobukori, fifth daimyo of the Matsudaira family, there was one Sugihara Kitoji, who was stationed in some military capacity at Kitzuki.
By the peasantry the Matsudaira daimyo of Izumo were supposed to be the greatest fox-possessors.
Near this temple formerly stood a very popular theatre, also erected by the Daimyo in his earnest desire to appease the soul of his victim; for he had heard that the Kengyo was very fond of theatrical performances.
When Tomotada was about twenty years old, he was sent upon a private mission to Hosokawa Masamoto, the great daimyo of Kyoto, a kinsman of Hatakeyama Yoshimune.
Nothing further is said about the mother of Tomotada, or about the parents of Aoyagi, or about the daimyo of Noto.
The local Daimyo insisted on sending men to tow it into his harbour, and gave them instructions to run it aground on a sandbank, which they did.
At that time there was virtually no Central Government in the country, and the various Daimyo were engaged in constant wars with each other.
About this time a Japanese named Chŭng Seung was Daimyo of Tsushima.
The daimyo able to use firearms would necessarily possess some advantage over a rival lord having no such weapons; and those lords able to monopolize the trade could increase their power at the expense of their neighbours.
Over the whole body of the producing classes, two million samurai had power of life and death; over these samurai the daimyo held a like power; and the daimyo were subject to the Shogun.
The Dutch vessel was seized immediately upon her arrival at Kyushu; and Adams and his shipmates were taken into custody by the daimyo of Bungo, who reported the fact to Iyeyasu.
At the death of a daimyo it was then common for fifteen or twenty of his retainers to disembowel themselves.
Coercion might partly explain it,--coercion exercised by converted daimyo upon their subjects.
The daimyo passed away; the castles fell to ruin; the samurai caste was abolished and dispossessed.
Needless to say that the samurai did everything in his power to persuade the daimyo to forgo his purpose.
Himeji contains the ruins of a great castle of thirty turrets; and a daimyo used to dwell therein whose revenue was one hundred and fifty-six thousand koku of rice.
Within comparatively recent times, the great Daimyo of Izumo, for example, were apotheosised; and the peasants of Shimane still pray before the shrines of the Matsudaira.
A lady of Matsue related in my presence this curious souvenir of her childhood: 'When I was a very little girl,' she said, our daimyo hired a foreigner to teach the military art.
Among these is the venerable Arakawa Junosuke, who wrought many rare things for the Daimyo of Izumo in the Tempo era, and whose acquaintance I have been enabled to make through my school-friends.
Then at last she heard of him through a messenger sent from the army to bear news to the daimyo and once again a letter was brought to her by another messenger.
And the deity of Rakuzan-jinja is Naomasa, grandson of Iyeyasu, and father of the Daimyo of Matsue.
A few years later, the daimyo to whom the ground belonged gave orders that the tree should be cut down.
But the Tono-san-gaeru, so called after a famed daimyo who left behind him a memory of great splendour is beautiful: its colour is a fine bronze-red.
The Satsuma daimyo was led to believe that the presence of the Jesuits in Kagoshima would certainly prelude the advent of trading vessels.
A century later, the daimyo namako was invented, in which lines of dots alternated with lines of polished ground.
The gild received moneys on account of the Tokugawa or the feudal chiefs at provincial centres, and then made its own arrangements for cashing the cheques drawn upon it by the shogun or the daimyo in Yedo.
These as well as the charter were left in the hands of the daimyo of Hirado, who promised to restore them should the English re-open business in Japan.
Prior to the Meiji period the great painters attached to the household of a Daimyo were called O Eshi.
Daimyo ("great name") was the title given to a feudal chief.
Moreover, a fudai daimyowas of necessity appointed to the command of the fortress of Nijo in Kioto as well as of the great castles of Osaka and Fushimi, which Iyeyasu designated the keys of the country.
A daimyo or feudal chief drew from the peasants on his estate the means of subsistence for himself and his retainers.
The richest daimyo was Mayeda of Kaga, whose fief was assessed at a little over a million koku, his revenue thus being about half a million sterling.
The rooms in the inn, where neighboring daimyos were wont to rest on their journeys through, are still superb with carving, lacquer and paintings, but no daimyo will ever again hold his traveling court before their tokonoma.
In the farmhouse I was taken into a room in which in the old days the daimyo overlord had rested, into another room which had a secret door and into a third room where--an electric fan was buzzing.
There was the well-known tale of the sly servant who was sent to town by a stupid daimyo in order to buy a fan, and, though he brought back an umbrella, succeeded in imposing it on his master.
We drank from a black daimyo bowl which had been made four hundred years before.
Portraits of daimyos and famous scholars of the Sendai clan surround the Governor's room, and adjoining it is the tatami-covered apartment in which the daimyo used to sit when he was present at the examinations.
That is to say, because there was no one daimyo who could himself take the leadership and become shogun, they determined to rule with the tenno as nominal leader, but themselves as the real rulers.
The Daimyo gave him a handsome sum of money, besides full liberty to preach wherever he went.
So was I taught to greet our feudal daimyo when I was the very little girl; so all in Nippon, of old customs, greet him now.
Prominent among such patriots was the oldDaimyo of Konda, father of the present Prince Hagane.
The one indisputable fact about Sharaku is that he was originally a No-performer in the troupe of the Daimyo of Awa.
Sharaku was, as we have said, professionally a member of the No-troupe of the Daimyo of Awa.
Scene from a Drama The daimyo and the courtesan Compliment each other.
I He was born in a city of the interior, the seat of a daimyo of three hundred thousand koku, where no foreigner had ever been.
The freshly-severed head set before him was not his father's: the daimyo had been deceived, but further deception was necessary.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "daimyo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
