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Shugodai (守護代, shugodai) were officials during feudal Japan. [1] Shugodai were representatives of provincial shugo when the shugo could not virtually exercise his power, being often away from his province. Unlike shugo, who were appointed from the central power of samurai estate or Shogunate, shugodai were locally appointed. [1]
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.
The military mission was able to train an elite corps of shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the Denshūtai, for a little more than one year, before the Tokugawa shogunate lost to the Imperial forces in 1868 in the Boshin War. The French military mission was then ordered to leave Japan by decree of the newly installed Meiji Emperor in October 1868.
The list below is a list of various aristocratic families whose families served as Shugo, Shugodai, Jitō, and Daimyo Abe clan of Mikawa ( 阿部氏 ) – descended from Emperor Kōgen and the ancient Abe clan ( 阿部氏 ); no direct relation to the Abe clan of Ōshū ( 安倍氏 ).
Although Enya Kamonnosuke was dispatched to Gassan Toda castle as the new Shugodai, Tsunehisa recaptured Gassan Toda castle by a surprise attack in 1486, took control of Izumo, and developed the Amago clan into a Sengoku Daimyo clan. The Amago fought the Ōuchi clan or the Mōri clan (who had been among their vassals), during Japan's Sengoku ...
The shogunate placed many fudai at strategic locations to guard the trade routes and the approaches to Edo. Also, many fudai daimyo took positions in the Edo shogunate, some rising to the position of rōjū. The fact that fudai daimyo could hold government positions, while tozama in general could not, was a main difference between the two.
Tokugawa also greeted the Englishman personally during his trips to Japan, even after he had rose to the shogunate. Eventually, Adams was gifted the honorary title of samurai. Meanwhile, Tokugawa ...
The Echigo Nagao branch were Shugodai of Echigo province. This branch of the clan built and controlled Kasugayama Castle and the surrounding fief, in what is now Niigata Prefecture . Nagao Kagetora, adopted by Uesugi Norimasa , became lord of Kasugayama castle in 1548, taking the name Uesugi Kenshin and effectively becoming the head of the ...