Example sentences for: daimyo

How can you use “daimyo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Converted nine years earlier, daimyo Omura founded the port of Nagasaki as a center for Portuguese trade in 1571.

  • The local daimyo of Satsuma was so impressed that he started to buy British ships, which became the foundation of the future Imperial Japanese Navy.

  • During its subsequent two and a half centuries of rule from the new capital established at Edo, the Tokugawa organized a tightly controlled coalition of some 260 daimyo in strategic strongholds throughout the country.

  • From 1467 to 1568, civil war constantly raged up and down the country among some 260 daimyo, from which a dozen finally emerged victorious.

  • In 1863, the daimyo of Choshu (in western Honshu) fired on foreign ships in the Shimonoseki Straits.


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