Some of the characteristics of the Edo period were a very strict class system that put a military overlord known as the shogun and his clan on top, landed lords called daimyo underneath them ...

When a daimyo died, these warriors became "ronin," masterless samurai. After Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun in 1603, samurai military services were no longer required, and many ronin wandered the ...

She'll soon learn Toranaga's scenario, after the daimyo sent her the Portugeuse priest Alvito with a message. The most critical question in this arc of Shogun is whether Lord Toranaga truly ...

TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture--A letter penned by a feudal warlord to future shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu is ... a separate peace pact and became a “daimyo” lord obedient to Hideyoshi.

“Shogun” is set in Japan during the Sengoku (Warring States) Period (1467-1568) and features a Japanese daimyo lord played by Sanada and a British navigator who becomes his subordinat ...