During the Edo period, they controlled three-fourths of the land not held by the bakufu, and under Tokugawa rule, they came to be known as kinsei, or "early modern."
Typical ones used the kashindan to run their administration, and took policy advice from a council of elders called the karo. Those of the 14th and 15th centuries were known as shugo, and were supplanted by the Sengoku type, which took their name from that period. During the Edo period, they controlled three-fourths of the land not held by the bakufu, and under Tokugawa rule, they came to be known as kinsei, or "early modern." In 1869, the year after the Meiji restoration, they bounded together with the kuge to form a new aristocratic group, the kazoku, and in 1871 their family holdings were abolished and their land was confiscated by the emperor. Literally called "large private land," FTP, name these powerful feudal rulers from the 12th century to the 19th century in Japan.
Typical ones used the kashindan to run their administration, and took policy advice from a council of elders called the karo.
Daimyo