daimyo
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A daimyo was a powerful feudal lord in medieval and early-modern Japan who controlled a territory and its people. Daimyo mattered because they dominated Japanese politics and warfare for centuries, particularly during the Sengoku period (around 1570 AD shown in the map), when they competed for power and shaped the nation's political landscape.
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- ''Shugo-daimyō''
- ''Sengoku-daimyo''
- Edo period
- After the Meiji Restoration
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thumb|upright=1.5|A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD)
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 15th century to the early 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 and the kuge (an aristocratic class). In the term, means 'large', and stands for , meaning 'private land'.