daimyo

On the contrary, there ended up being not much continuity between pre-Meiji Japan and Meiji Japan--the daimyo's domains were replaced with prefectures and the daimyo themselves were largely forcibly retired.

The first ship known to follow this convention was the Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet.

He was given his own house to run and a katana directly by daimyo Nobunaga.

As an employee you are not a samouraï ready to die for your daimyo.

Behind the mask of absolutism that kind of state may actually require the consent of the daimyo class, who mainly want impunity over their own domains.

This was intentional on the part of the Meiji oligarchy, in order to prevent the daimyo from retaining enough power to be able to rebel [1].

So as a cross poster said: the man was officially taken as a bodyguard to the daimyo, received a household, and was presented with a katana.

The first Black samurai, he was at Nobunaga’s side when the daimyo died; according to popular lore, Nobunaga tasked Yasuke with returning his head to his son.

There were no daimyo, as far as I know, that ruled territories that the Edo government struggled to control, after the foundation of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

That daimyo was one to challenge useless deaths such as junji, so it’s not like he was entirely a fan of the whole thing but he probably lived by Bushido very much to the core.

Later on, it says the daimyo thought Yasuke's skin looked like it was covered in black paint, which makes it more likely he was actually African, but I'm still not totally convinced.

My understanding is this was so that the military of Japan could be consolidated so they could negotiate internationally on more equal terms than they could when they needed to also manage relationships with the regional daimyo.

But if you don’t share the vision, please go somewhere else.”, which is similar to The Sony Way and Toyota's approach in the 70s, all the way back to the daimyo in the middle ages).

When I built a distributed system, I wanted to avoid the terms "master and slave" for the "coordinator and worker", so instead I chose something I thought was relatively less controversial- daimyo, honcho, and peasant.

The more apt comparison would be to a samurai choosing between continuing to serve his Daimyo, or eating the world's most delicious cinnamon roll.

It also could be ordered by the Daimyo, Shogun, etc.

Zaibatus/Keiretsu is just a modern evolution of feudal era Daimyo/Samurai.