Buddhist temporal power. See shinbutsu bunri shitsuji (執事) – see kanrei above. shizoku (士族) – "warrior families", term used to refer to former samurai after the abolition of the class system following the Meiji Restoration. shōen (荘園 or 庄園) – a manor and its fields. shōgun (将軍) – warlord dictator; the practical head of the nation, having seized power militarily or inherited it from another shōgun. shogunate – see bakufu shugo (守護) – officials appointed by the shōgun to oversee one or more provinces. T taikō (太閤) – a title frequently taken on by retired kampaku (Imperial regents). The term is most commonly used in reference to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. tairō (大老) – the highest-ranking government post of the Tokugawa shogunate. There was usually only one tairō, or, at times, none. tandai (探題) – during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, tandai was a colloquialism for a high-ranking official (for example a shikken or rensho) with governmental, judiciary or military responsibilities within a certain area. Tokugawa (徳川) – Tokugawa Ieyasu united Japan through force, becoming its shōgun in 1603. His family ruled in that position until 1867. tokusō (得宗) – the head of the mainline Hōjō clan, who monopolized the position of shikken (see above) during the Kamakura shogunate. tozama daimyō (外様) – a daimyō who had become a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara (see fudai). There were tozama who had fought both for and against Ieyasu. U udaijin (右大臣) – Junior Minister of State overseeing all branches of the Department of State during the late Nara and Heian periods, deputy of the sadaijin (see above). Uesugi clan (上杉氏, Uesugi-shi) – a clan, descended from the Fujiwara clan, important for its power in the Muromachi and Sengoku periods (roughly 14th–17th centuries). Uesugi Zenshū's rebellion (上杉禅秀の乱 Uesugi Zenshū no Ran) – Uesugi Zenshū's 1416 rebellion against Ashikaga Mochiuji. W Warring states period - See Sengoku period Y Yūki Kassen (結城合戦) – 15th century rebellion by the Yūki clan against the Ashikaga shogunate. See also Category:Government of feudal Japan Japanese units of measurement Japan history-related lists Japanese history Wikipedia glossaries using unordered lists