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    Tozama daimyō (外様大名, "outside daimyō") was a class of powerful magnates or daimyō (大名) considered to be outsiders by the ruler of Japan during the Edo...
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    Sekigahara. Fudai daimyō and their descendants filled the ranks of the Tokugawa administration in opposition to the tozama daimyō and held most of the...
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    centered around Kōchi Castle, and was ruled throughout its history by the tozama daimyō Yamauchi clan. Many people from the domain played important roles in...
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  • Bakumatsu (section Daimyōs)
    driving forces for dissent: first, growing resentment on the part of the tozama daimyō (or outside lords), and second, growing anti-Western sentiment following...
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    island of Kyushu. The Satsuma Domain was ruled for its existence by the Tozama daimyō of the Shimazu clan, who had ruled the Kagoshima area since the 1200s...
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    Daimyo (大名, daimyō; English: /ˈdaɪm.joʊ/, Japanese: [dai.mʲoꜜː] ) were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early...
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    the country, particularly smaller regions, daimyō, and samurai were more or less identical, since daimyō might be trained as samurai, and samurai might...
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    the shinpan daimyō of the Aizu-Matsudaira clan, a local cadet branch of the ruling Tokugawa clan, but was briefly ruled by the tozama daimyō of the Gamō...
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    island of Honshu. The Chōshū Domain was ruled for its existence by the tozama daimyō of the Mōri, whose branches also ruled the neighboring Chōfu and Kiyosue...
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    fudai daimyō, while those who pledged allegiance to him after the battle (after his power was unquestioned) were known as tozama daimyō. Tozama daimyō were...
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    100 rival tozama daimyō, the descendants of those who had fought against the Tokugawa at the Battle of Sekigahara. Many of the strongest tozama domains...
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    Shimazu clan (category Daimyo)
    were the daimyō of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan. The Shimazu were identified as one of the tozama or outsider...
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  • families could also provide a shogunal successor if necessary. Fudai daimyō Tozama daimyō Totman, Conrad. (1967). Politics in the Tokugawa bakufu, 1600–1843...
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    island of Honshu. The Kaga Domain was ruled for its existence by the tozama daimyō of the Maeda, and covered most of Kaga Province and Etchū Province and...
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    Shimazu Tadayoshi (2nd) (category Tozama daimyo)
    December 26, 1897) was a Japanese daimyō of the late Edo period, who ruled the Satsuma Domain as its 12th and last daimyō until 1871. He succeeded his father...
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    Edo society (section Daimyō)
    the court ranks were used to control the daimyo. The daimyō were samurai feudal lords. The daimyō were high-ranking members of the samurai, and, similar...
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    During the Edo period, the Uesugi were a tozama or outsider clan, in contrast with the fudai or insider daimyō clans which had been hereditary vassals...
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    center of the city of Saga. It was ruled through its history by the tozama daimyō Nabeshima clan. The domain was also referred to as Hizen Domain (肥前藩)...
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    island of Honshu. The Sendai Domain was ruled for its existence by the tozama daimyō of the Date, and under the kokudaka system its income rating at 625...
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    applied to the tozama daimyō, but expanded to apply to all daimyō by 1642. One of the key goals of this policy was to prevent the daimyō from amassing...
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    Matsumae Takahiro (category Tozama daimyo)
    9, 1866) was a Japanese daimyō (military lord) of the Edo period, who ruled the Matsumae Domain. Though he was a tozama daimyō, he served in the Tokugawa...
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    Shimazu Tadatsune (category Tozama daimyo)
    Shimazu Tadatsune (島津 忠恒; November 27, 1576 – April 7, 1638) was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa...
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  • nearly ten million koku of productive land. Because the tozama were the least trusted of the daimyo, they were the most cautiously managed and generously...
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    Horio Tadauji (category Daimyo)
    Horio Tadauji (堀尾 忠氏; 1578 – August 8, 1604) was a tozama daimyō in the Azuchi–Momoyama and Edo period. His father was Horio Yoshiharu. He was the second...
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    constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Tsugaru clan, a 47,000 koku tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Hirosaki Domain, Mutsu Province, in what is now...
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    was different from the feudalism of the West. The Sō clan was one of few daimyō clans during the Edo period which continued to control the same fiefs it...
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    Horio Tadaharu (category Daimyo)
    Horio Tadaharu (堀尾 忠晴; 1596 – 26 October 1633) was a tozama daimyō in Japan during the Edo period. His father was Horio Tadauji and his grandfather was...
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    family became daimyōs under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and for five generations headed the Tsuyama Domain in Mimasaka Province as tozama daimyō. Nagayoshi had...
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    certain families as an honorific. These families included both fudai and tozama daimyō families. The Date clan of Sendai, the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, the...
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    as tozama daimyō, with an initial income of 300,000 koku, which later fell to 150,000–180,000. The Uesugi were ranked as a province-holding daimyō (国持ち大名...
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