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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.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was now, in effect, the ruler of Japan, but there was still opposition to him. Some daimyo he stripped of all title to land, others he reduced their holdings and some were uprooted and moved to territories overlooked by those of his followers.y May 1582 Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga had jointly annihilated the remnants of the Takeda army and Tokugawa Ieyasu added the former Takeda province of Suruga to his domain. Together the two allies had conquered, and were occupying, a consider-able portion of Japan.