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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.
Before the Meiji restoration, Japan was a semi-feudal society run by the Tokugawa clan, a lineage of military overlords called the shogun (literally general).They had come to power in 1600 after a long period of civil war.he Meiji Restoration (1868) is called such because it restored direct imperial rule, i.e. rule by the Emperor of Japan.