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.

  • Note the monument to the daimyo Matsudaira Masatane, Ieyasu’s trusted retainer.

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

  • The daimyo were required to spend alternate years in Edo, while their families lived there all the time, as hostages of sorts.

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


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