Example sentences for: daimyo

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

  • Many Kyushu daimyo adopted Christianity as a means of winning favor with the Portuguese traders, without necessarily abandoning their Buddhist beliefs or Shinto practices.

  • 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.

  • It is dominated by the well-preserved Matsuyama Castle, which was once the redoubt of the Matsudaira daimyo.

  • The Tokugawa shoguns, however, sensed that the internal strains might be contained, by sheer brute force if necessary, as long as new pressures were not exerted from outside by foreigners once again offering disgruntled daimyo new sources of income.


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