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Fudai daimyō
Class of daimyō (warlords) during the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Fudai" redirects here. For the village in Japan, see Fudai, Iwate.
Fudai daimyō (譜代大名) was a class of daimyō (大名) in the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府) of Japan who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa before the Battle of Sekigahara.[1] Fudai daimyō and their descendants filled the ranks of the Tokugawa administration in opposition to the tozama daimyō and held most of the power in Japan during the Edo period.
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