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Daimyo

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Shimazu Nariakira, daimyo o Satsuma Domain, appears in this daguerreotype photograph bi Ichiki Shirō.

The Daimyo (大名, daimyō, pronoonced Aboot this soonddaimjoo ) wur the pouerfu territorial lairds[1] in pre-modren Japan that ruled maist o the kintra frae thair vast, hereditary laund hauldins.

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  1. Katsuro, Hara (2009). An Introduction to the History of Japan. BiblioBazaar, LLC. p. 291. ISBN 1-110-78785-5.