WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Few daimyo (land owning lords) could afford to buy armor and weapons for their warriors. As a result, lords paid their samurai with land, gifts, or food. Samurai who received no land were given food-usually rice-or other gifts as payment. Only the most powerful samurai got land for their service.

Detailed explanation-2: -Daimyo often hired samurai to guard their land, and they paid the samurai in land or food as relatively few could afford to pay samurai in money.

Detailed explanation-3: -The daimyo were vassals of the shogun, each with control over their own lands. The daimyo then employed samurai (often paying them with land and title) as their warriors, guards, and officers.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.