Daimyos are also leaders of warrior clans known as samurai. Every Daimyo was given a fief, or an estate of land contingent on loyal feudal service, and was devoted to their regent or shogun ...

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The main district, Honmaru, held the shogun’s residence. A daimyo or samurai who came to pay homage to the shogun crossed a bridge before being led through a passageway to the residential palace.

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A daimyo believes his samurai have grown weak living in a peaceful era, an era he fears will end with the arrival of Americans. To test and assess his troops, he arranges a marathon race with a ...

Each daimyo, who typically came from the samurai class, relied heavily on the elite, ... (1543–1616) took control of Japan, and the powerless imperial court named him shogun ...

By the twelfth century, the emperor’s influence had waned as the power of the samurai increased. The first samurai shogun, a hereditary title given to Japan’s top military leader, was ...