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A daimyo or shogun will have suzerainty over various villages, which he protects, and from which he obtains the means to maintain his men. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 26, Sentence #99)

One is not entitled to assume that a fair-skinned slave from abroard, one from a far different culture, is going to know what might be expected of her, the proper serving, for example, of sake, the appropriate temperature, and such. The staple in the Twelve Islands, which is actually far more than twelve, is not Sa-Tarna, but rice. Rice fields, or paddies, are associated with each village. A daimyo or shogun will have suzerainty over various villages, which he protects, and from which he obtains the means to maintain his men. He who controls the rice, it is said, controls the islands. Several rice fields were associated with the holding of Lord Temmu, most north and west of the castle. To reach such fields by land would mean to pass the holding of Lord Temmu. - (Mariners of Gor)