shomyo

Updated: May 13, 2025

Neither daimyo nor shomyo is permitted to enter into secret engagements or to exchange written oaths, or to give or take hostages. In a quarrel the one who forebears shall be recognized as having reason. No man, whatever his income, should keep a large number of concubines. The amount of sake imbibed should be limited to one's capacity.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

These shimpo-jito, in whom were vested at once the rights of ownership and of management, were the first genuine feudal chiefs in Japan prototypes of the future daimyo and shomyo.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

By way of compensation for this levy he reduced to half a year the time that each feudal chief had to reside in Yedo. This meant, of course, a substantial lessening of the great expenses entailed upon the feudatories by the sankin kotai system, and the relief thus afforded proved most welcome to the daimyo and the shomyo alike.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era