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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The great landowners of Japan were the ____
A
samurai
B
shogun
C
haiku
D
daimyos
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -daimyo, any of the largest and most powerful landholding magnates in Japan from about the 10th century until the latter half of the 19th century. The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai (“large”) and myō (for myōden, or “name-land, ‘’ meaning “private land”).

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Landowners in feudal Japan were called daimyo, and were the equivalent of lords in feudal Europe. From the twelfth through the nineteenth century, Daimyos had a mutually beneficial relationship with the military leader of Japan, known as the shogun.

Detailed explanation-3: -A daimyo was a feudal lord in shogunal Japan from the 12th century to the 19th century. The daimyos were large landowners and vassals of the shogun. Each daimyo hired an army of samurai warriors to protect his family’s lives and property.

Detailed explanation-4: -Japan saw the rise of a new type of landowners belonging to the military. They were called Daimyos, which comes from the Japanese words dai meaning large, and myōden meaning name-land or private land.

Detailed explanation-5: -Daimyo (, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: [daimʲoː] ( listen)) were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings.

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