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| | The heads of the Three Houses and the Three Lords and their heirs were allowed to use the name "Tokugawa." Shinpan daimyo of other houses and younger sons of the heads of the Three Houses used the name "Matsudaira." | | The heads of the Three Houses and the Three Lords and their heirs were allowed to use the name "Tokugawa." Shinpan daimyo of other houses and younger sons of the heads of the Three Houses used the name "Matsudaira." |
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| | Though the categories of ''shinpan'', ''fudai'', and ''tozama'' are quite standard in scholarship today, in the Edo period, ''daimyô'' were more typically categorized and regarded by rank by which rooms in [[Edo castle]] they were associated with. ''Daimyô'' of different ranks & categories were associated with differen waiting rooms, and these rank groupings determined where a given ''daimyô'' would sit in or around the ''Ôhiroma'' (Great Audience Hall) during formal audiences.<ref>Fukai Masaumi, ''Edo-jô wo yomu'', Harashobô (1997), 58-61.; Gallery label, "[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/11269336136/ Daimyô no kakushiki]," Edo-Tokyo Museum.</ref> | | Though the categories of ''shinpan'', ''fudai'', and ''tozama'' are quite standard in scholarship today, in the Edo period, ''daimyô'' were more typically categorized and regarded by rank by which rooms in [[Edo castle]] they were associated with. ''Daimyô'' of different ranks & categories were associated with differen waiting rooms, and these rank groupings determined where a given ''daimyô'' would sit in or around the ''Ôhiroma'' (Great Audience Hall) during formal audiences.<ref>Fukai Masaumi, ''Edo-jô wo yomu'', Harashobô (1997), 58-61.; Gallery label, "[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/11269336136/ Daimyô no kakushiki]," Edo-Tokyo Museum.</ref> |
| − | #Ôrôka: Members of the ''gosanke'' and ''gosankyô'', along with a few of the highest-ranking ''daimyô'' (such as the [[Maeda clan]] of [[Kaga han]], [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma han]], and [[Matsudaira clan (Echizen)|Matsudaira clan]] of [[Matsue han]]) were associated with the ''Ôrôka'', or "great corridor."
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| − | #Tamari-no-ma: Collateral houses of the Tokugawa, typically known as ''shinpan'' or ''kamon'', including the various [[Matsudaira clan]] branch families of [[Aizu han]], [[Kuwana han]], and [[Takamatsu han]], sat with the [[Ii clan]] of [[Hikone han]] and up to six other ''fudai daimyô'' and ''rôjû'' in the ''tamari no ma'', adjacent to the ceremonial chambers, and closest of all the ''daimyô'' waiting rooms to the shogunal residence.
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| − | #Ôhiroma: Around thirty lords were associated with the audience hall itself. These included ''shinpan/kamon'' collateral families not included in the higher ranks, as well as ''tozama daimyô'' above 110,000 ''[[kokudaka|koku]]''.
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| − | #Teikan no ma: Roughly sixty ''fudai'' and ''jun-fudai'' (semi- or quasi-''fudai'') clans were associated with the Teikan-no-ma, a room decorated with images of the "Mirror of the Emperors" (''teikan''). These included the [[Okubo clan|Ôkubo]] of [[Odawara han]], [[Toda clan|Toda]] of [[Ogaki han|Ôgaki]], and the [[Yanagisawa clan|Yanagisawa]] of [[Yamatokoriyama han]].
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| − | #Yanagi no ma: Branch houses of the clans associated with the Ôhiroma, along with ''tozama daimyô'' up to 100,000 ''koku'' in rank were associated with the Yanagi-no-ma, a room decorated with paintings of willows (''yanagi'').
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| − | #Kari no ma: ''Fudai daimyô'' of castle-holding (''shiro-mochi'' or ''shiro-nushi'') rank and above were seated in the ''kari-no-ma'', a room decorated with paintings of geese (''kari'').
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| − | #Kiku no ma: ''Fudai daimyô'' not of castle-holding rank were seated in the "chrysanthemum room," or ''kiku-no-ma''. These included the [[Ooka clan|Ôoka]] of [[Nishi-Ohira han|Nishi-Ôhira]], the [[Oseki clan|Ôseki]] of [[Kurobane han]], the [[Yamaguchi clan]] of [[Ushihisa han]], and the [[Tanuma clan]] of [[Sagara han]].
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