Taiju

• Japanese: 大樹 (taiju)

Taiju, literally meaning "great tree," was one of a number of terms frequently employed in the Edo period to refer to the Tokugawa shogun. Others included kubô and taikun.

The term derives, perhaps, from taiju shôgun 大樹将軍 (C: dàshù jiāngjūn), a term used in the Book of Later Han to refer to Feng Yi, who sat under a tree and was modest while other generals boasted of their victories and received rewards.

References

• Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku! 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), p42.
• "Taiju shôgun," Digital Daijisen.