daimioate

Updated: May 10, 2025

The Daimios, too, as a means of spending their leisure hours when they were not out hawking or revelling with their mistresses, gave no inattentive ear to the readings and lectures of learned men. Each Daimioate took pride in the number and fame of her own learned sons. Thus throughout the country eminent scholars arose. With them a new era of literature dawned upon the land.

Toyokichi Iyenaga - The Constitutional Development of Japan 1863-1881