Choose the correct answer

…………… means great name/lord.

Explanation: Daimyo is the correct option, meaning ‘great name-lord’, referring to landholders who were also military men who emerged during the rule of the Fujiwara clan in Japan.

Option (b) is incorrect because the title ‘Shogun’ refers to military rulers (Yorimoto was the first) who were given hereditary power by the emperor in 1192 AD, and became de facto rulers.

Option (c) is incorrect because the Fujiwara refers to the family that succeeded the Soga family in Japan, ruling for some two-hundred years. The Daimyo emerged in their reign.

Option (d) is incorrect because the Tokugawa period refers to the final period in the history of traditional Japan, named for Tokugawa Ieyasu, one of the three men to rescue Japan from civil war and allow it to regain unity once more.