| お忍び;御忍び | [おしのび, oshinobi] (n) (1) (abbr) travelling incognito (traveling); (2) (See 御忍び駕籠) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito |
| 分国法 | [ぶんこくほう, bunkokuhou] (n) (See 戦国大名) laws established by daimyo applicable only in their own domain (during the Warring States period) |
| 定詰;定詰め | [じょうづめ, joudume] (n,vs) (1) (obsc) permanent staff; permanent employee; service for a fixed period of time; (n) (2) (arch) (Edo era) a daimyo or feudal retainer who lived and; or served in Edo for a fixed period of time |
| 御家騒動;お家騒動 | [おいえそうどう, oiesoudou] (n) family trouble (quarrel); domestic squabble; internal squabble (over headship rights) in a daimyo family in the Edo period |
| 御忍び駕籠 | [おしのびかご, oshinobikago] (n) special palanquin for carrying a daimyo or his wife incognito |
| 楽市楽座 | [らくいちらくざ, rakuichirakuza] (n) free markets and open guilds (policy enacted by daimyo in the Azuchimomoyama Period (1573-1598) that weakened the strict regulations surrounding business establishment in market places and important cities, allowing new businesses to open in Joka-machi market places) |
| 移封 | [いほう, ihou] (n,vs) forced relocation of a daimyo to a different domain by the Edo shogunate |
| 藩邸 | [はんてい, hantei] (n) residence maintained by a daimyo in Edo |