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Shugo (守護), commonly translated as '[military] governor', 'protector', or 'constable', was a title given to certain officials in feudal Japan. They were each appointed by the shogun to oversee one or more of the provinces of Japan .
A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD). Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.
Asakura Toshikage (朝倉敏景, 1428 - 1481) was a Japanese head of the Asakura clan, and the shugo-daimyō (feudal military lord) of Echizen Province during Japan's Muromachi period. He fought in the Ōnin War from 1472 until its end in 1477.
The ensuing turmoil gave inadvertently rise to the figure of the daimyō feudal lord, although the term wouldn't be in wide use for the first half a century. [3] Many daimyōs were shugo or jitō of gokenin extraction or even noblemen, but most were new faces who had supplanted their superiors. [3]
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 ).
Lord Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada) is a shrewd and powerful daimyo – a feudal lord subordinate to the ruling shogun – who seeks advantage over his political rivals. Lady Mariko (Anna Sawai) is an ...
Oyama Tomomasa (小山 朝政, 1155 – May 15, 1238) was a Japanese samurai lord and gokenin of the late Heian and early Kamakura period. He served as shugo of Shimotsuke Province and Harima Province. He was an influential gokenin during the founding of the Kamakura shogunate. He was the 2nd head of the Oyama clan. He was also known as Oyama ...
The Shugo shared their newfound wealth with the local samurai, creating a hierarchical relationship between the Shugo and the samurai, and the first early daimyo (大名, feudal lords), called shugo daimyo (守護大名), appeared. [8] In 1428, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, the fourth shogun, was ill and the question of his succession arose.