Fudai daimyō (譜代大名) was a class of daimyō (大名) in the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府) of Japan who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa before the Battle...

daimyo to increase or decrease their areas of control. The fudai daimyo (譜代大名) who had sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu before the Battle of Sekigahara were...

majority of chōnin were merchants, but some were craftsmen, as well. daimyō (大名) – a feudal lord during the later Muromachi period, Sengoku period, Azuchi–Momoyama...