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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 Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu (å¾³å·å¹åº) and the Edo bakufu (æ±æ¸å¹åº) , was the last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1868. The heads of government were the shoguns, and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan.The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle and the years of the shogunate became known as the Edo period. This time is also called the Tokugawa period or pre-modern (Kinsei (è¿ä¸)).he Late Tokugawa Shogunate (Japanese: å¹æ« Bakumatsu) was the period between 1853 and 1867, during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.