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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.
The lesser vassals whose land was valued at under 10,000 koku were called hatamoto, or bannermen. In the early seventeenth century Japan produced an estimated 24.5 million koku annually from daimyo fiefs of 10,000 koku or more, and of this the Tokugawa held lands produced about 8.5 million koku.