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These classes of ''daimyô'' were fixed for the duration of the Edo period; the shogunate altered ''daimyô'' ranking and territory at times, but ''daimyô'' were never shifted from one ''daimyô'' category to another. Ieyasu also set up a third class of ''daimyô'' consisting of his descendants,<ref>Of course, "descendants" in the Edo period meant descendants in the male line, including adopted heirs. Adoption of close relatives was preferred though, so even adopted heirs were often descendants of the same person.</ref> the ''shinpan daimyô'' 親藩大名, or "collateral daimyô."<ref>The term ''shinpan'' is more common in scholarship today, but was not used at the time; ''kamon'' 家紋 was somewhat more typical in the Edo period. Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 234n5.</ref>
These classes of ''daimyô'' were fixed for the duration of the Edo period; the shogunate altered ''daimyô'' ranking and territory at times, but ''daimyô'' were never shifted from one ''daimyô'' category to another. Ieyasu also set up a third class of ''daimyô'' consisting of his descendants,<ref>Of course, "descendants" in the Edo period meant descendants in the male line, including adopted heirs. Adoption of close relatives was preferred though, so even adopted heirs were often descendants of the same person.</ref> the ''shinpan daimyô'' 親藩大名, or "collateral daimyô."<ref>The term ''shinpan'' is more common in scholarship today, but was not used at the time; ''kamon'' 家紋 was somewhat more typical in the Edo period. Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 234n5.</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 a variety of different metrics of rank or status. These included ''kokudaka'', [[court ranks|court rank]], relationship with the Tokugawa family, for the lower-ranking ''daimyô'' whether one had a [[castle]] or had one's domain based at a ''[[jin'ya]]'', and finally, by which waiting room in [[Edo castle]] one was assigned to. ''Daimyô'' of different ranks & categories were associated with different waiting rooms, where one would wait until called into the audience hall. For more details on waiting room assignments, see [[Edo castle#Omote|Edo castle]].<ref>Futaki Ken'ichi 二木謙一, ''Buke girei kakushiki no kenkyû'' 「武家儀礼格式の研究」, Yoshikawa Kobunkan (2003), 381.</ref>
===Fudai Daimyo===
===Fudai Daimyo===
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."
==Notes==
==Notes==