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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.
Notes. 1  An example is the AndÃ´ å®è¤ family who were retainers of the Kii Tokugawa clan. They ruled the 38,000 koku han of Tanabe in Kii province. 2  Mark Ravina, Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, Stanford University Press (1999), 35. 3  Yamamoto Hirofumi, Sankin kÃ´tai, Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 187-188.