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daimio
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dai·mi·o or dai·my·o  (dm-, dmy)
n. pl. daimio or dai·mi·os also daimyo or dai·my·os
A feudal lord of Japan who was a large landowner.
[Japanese daimy : dai, great; see daikon + my, name (from Middle Chinese mjiajng).]


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Michael Chijiwa, also thirteen, was a cousin of the daimyos of Arima Harunobu and Omura Sumitada.
Courtiers and Christians: the first Japanese emissaries to Europe by Brown, Judith C. / Renaissance Quarterly
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