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Unlike shugo, who were appointed from the central power of samurai estate or Shogunate, shugodai were locally appointed. [1] At the brink of the Sengoku period, most shugo strengthened their grip on power, leading to the effective disappearance of their shugodai. However, taking advantage of the weakening of their Shugo due to war or other ...
Some shugo lost their powers to subordinates such as the shugodai, while others strengthened their grip on their territories. As a result, at the end of the 15th century, the beginning of the Sengoku period, the power in the country was divided amongst military lords of various kinds (shugo, shugodai, and others), who came to be called daimyōs.
A former daikan's office, the Suibara Daikansho in Agano, Niigata Prefecture. Daikan (代官) was an official in ancient Japan that acted on behalf of a ruling monarch or a lord at the post they had been appointed to.
Sabazios (Ancient Greek: Σαβάζιος, romanized: Sabázios, modern pronunciation Savázios; alternatively, Sabadios [3]) is a deity originating in Asia Minor. [4] He is the horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians. [5]
The home of a gokenin. A gokenin (御家人) was initially a vassal of the shogunate of the Kamakura and the Muromachi periods. [1] In exchange for protection and the right to become jitō (manor's lord), a gokenin had in times of peace the duty to protect the imperial court and Kamakura, then political capital of Japan.
In Greek mythology Python was the earth-dragon of Delphi, always represented in the vase-paintings and by sculptors as a serpent. Various myths represented Python as being either male or female (a drakaina). Python was the chthonic enemy of Apollo, who slew it and remade its former home his own oracle, the most famous in Greece.
In Greek mythology, Augeas (or Augeias, / ɔː ˈ dʒ iː ə s /, Ancient Greek: Αὐγείας), whose name means "bright", was king of Elis and father of Epicaste.Some ancient authors say that Augeas was one of the Argonauts. [1]
In Greek mythology, Poena or Poine (Ancient Greek: Ποινή, romanized: Poinḗ, lit. 'recompense, punishment') is the spirit of punishment [1] and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis, [2] the goddess of divine retribution.