Note 12 — And in Neighboring Provinces and Realms, From July, 1618, to the Present Date in 1619

The daimiôs constituted, under the old feudal organization of Japan, a class of territorial nobility, who numbered about two hundred and fifty. Under Iyemidzu (1623–51) the daimiôs were obliged to live in Yedo half the time with their families; and, before Page 206nthis, those nobles had been in the habit of visiting the reigning monarch at the capital. For account of the daimiôs and their vassals, the samurai, see Rein’s Japan, pp. 318–328; and Griffis’s Mikado’s Empire, pp. 217, 321, 322.