What is "daimyos"

Usage examples of "daimyos".

But most Christian daimyos supported Ishido, fearing - with justification, Father Alvito believed the ascendence of Toranaga.

The Taiko subdued the land, made the peace, forced all the daimyos in the land to grovel like peasants before him, rearranged fiefs to suit his whim - promoting some, deposing others - and then he died.

Though he and all other daimyos had total power in their own domains, they were still subject to the overriding authority of the Council of Regents, the military ruling junta to whom the Taiko had legally willed his power during his son's minority, and subject, too, to edicts the Taiko had issued in his lifetime, which were all still legally in force.

Obviously the ship had to be investigated at once but Toranaga was still away in Osaka for the final confrontation with General Lord Ishido and, in his absence, had invited Yabu and all friendly neighboring daimyos to wait until his return.

Yabu knew that he and the other independent daimyos and their families were merely added protection for Toranaga's safety and, though of course the word would never be used, they were hostages against Toranaga's safe return from the impregnable enemy fortress at Osaka where the meeting was being held.

There were five Regents, all eminent daimyos, but only Toranaga and Ishido had real power.

Before taking power, the five great daimyos had publicly sworn eternal allegiance to the dying Taiko and to his son and his line forever.

And all other daimyos were equally obliged to visit the castle with their families to pay their respects to the Heir, also twice a year.

Of course, there are all ranks of samurai from daimyos at the top of the muckheap to what we'd call a foot soldier at the bottom.

If the package contains the rutters, is the package meant for one of the Christian daimyos, or Ishido or Toranaga, or just for his Eminence, the Father-Visitor himself?

Hiro-matsu and Yabu, both badly shaken, were assisted onto the deck, but once on deck both daimyos stood erect.

He hardly shut down a church and only banished two or three of the Christian daimyos - but that was just to get their lands - and never enforced his Expulsion Edicts.

But all was still quiet though their spies whispered about dangerous enemy buildups to the north and east, and that their main allies, the Regents, Onoshi and Kiyama, the greatest of the Christian daimyos, were going to defect to Ishido.

The Christian daimyos felt that if Toranaga eliminated Ishido's influence from the Council of Regents, Toranaga would usurp all power for himself.

Even he, Father Alvito, the most informed European in the Empire, could not say for certain which side even the Christian daimyos would actually support when the clash became open, or which faction would prevail.