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Daimyo are Japanese lords with large landholdings and a private samurai army, who paid no taxes to the government. The daimyo controlled the samurai, who protected the daimyo, and therefore are higher than them on the pyramid.
After hundreds of years of civil wars, the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns made their foremost goals political stability and complete isolationism. The rice-based economy of Tokugawa period Japan was a complex form of feudalism. It was a country symbolically ruled by the emperor in Kyoto, while in actuality ruled by his shogun, or chief military advisor, in Edo.