大名
Meanings
Noun
1. daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) (Historical)
Kanji used
Pitch accent
だいみょう
Used in vocabulary
譜代大名
hereditary daimyo whose ancestors supported Tokugawa Ieyasu prior to the battle of Sekigahara
Noun
並び大名
someone who has a title but no real duty; useless person; actor playing a daimyo who merely sets the scene as part of the background
Noun
守護大名
provincial military governor turned daimyo (Muromachi period) (distinct from the shugo bureaucrats of the Kamakura period)
Noun
Examples2
あの
That daimyo holds a fief yielding 100,000 koku of rice.
日本
In feudal Japan, the lord with the largest land holdings was called a "daimyo."