Answer the following question: Information:  - The was a powerful daimyo family of Japan. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) by the Nitta clan. The early history of this clan remains a mystery. Members of the clan ruled Japan as Shoguns from 1603 to 1867.  - Ikeda Nagaoki (   , August 23 , 1837 -- September 12 , 1879 ) , formally `` Ikeda Chikugo no kami Nagaoki '' , was the governor of small villages of Ibara , Bitch Province ( Okayama Prefecture ) , Japan , during the end of the Tokugawa shogunate . He was , at 27 , the head of the Second Japanese Embassy to Europe ( Japanese :  ) , also called the Ikeda Mission , sent in 1863 - 1864 by the Tokugawa shogunate to negotiate the cancellation of the open - port status of Yokohama . The mission was sent following the 1863 `` Order to expel barbarians '' (  ) issued by Emperor Kmei , and the Bombardment of Shimonoseki incidents , in a wish to close again the country to Western influence , and return to sakoku status . Nagaoki left with a mission of 36 men on a French warship , stopped in Shanghai , India and Cairo through the Suez canal . His mission visited the pyramids , a feat which Antonio Beato photographed at the time . He finally arrived in Marseille and then Paris , where he met with Napoleon III and with Philipp Franz von Siebold . He stayed at the Grand Hotel in Paris . The request to close Japanese harbours to Westerners was doomed as Yokohama was the key springboard for Western activity in Japan . The mission was a total failure . Nagaoki however was very impressed with the advancement of French civilization , and became very active in promoting the dispatch of embassies and students abroad , once he had returned to Japan . He was finally put under house arrest by the Bakufu . Nagaoki brought many documents from France , related especially to physics , biology , manufacture , textiles and also fermentation technologies . He is considered as one of the fathers of the wine industry in Japan .  - Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia. Neighbors include China (officially the People's Republic of China, abbreviated as PRC) to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. Taiwan is the most populous state that is not a member of the United Nations, and the one with the largest economy.  - The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the , was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1603 and 1867. The head of government was the shogun, and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle and the years of the shogunate became known as the Edo period. This time is also called the Tokugawa period or pre-modern.  - Japan ("Nippon" or "Nihon" ; formally "" or "Nihon-koku", means "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, It is lying off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and near Taiwan in the southwest.   - , also known as , is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by ta Dkan. It is today part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, then known as Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate here. It was the residence of the shogun and location of the shogunate, and also functioned as the military capital during the Edo period of Japanese history. After the resignation of the shogun and the Meiji Restoration, it became the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Some moats, walls and ramparts of the castle survive to this day. However, the grounds were more extensive during the Edo period, with Tokyo Station and the Marunouchi section of the city lying within the outermost moat. It also encompassed Kitanomaru Park, the Nippon Budokan Hall and other landmarks of the surrounding area.  - China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a population of over 1.381 billion, it is the world's most populous country. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China, and its capital is Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions (Hong Kong and Macau), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan. The country's major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia, and has been characterized as a potential superpower.  - A was the military dictator of Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868 (with exceptions). In most of this period, the shoguns were the "de facto" rulers of the country; although nominally they were appointed by the Emperor as a ceremonial formality. The Shogun held almost absolute power over territories through military means. Nevertheless, an unusual situation occurred in the Kamakura period (11991333) upon the death of the first shogun, whereby the Hj clan's hereditary titles of "shikken" (1199-1256) and "tokus" (12561333) monopolized the shogunate as dictatorial positions, collectively known as the . The shogun during this 134-year period met the same fate as the Emperor and was reduced to a figurehead until a coup in 1333, when the Shogun was restored to power in the name of the Emperor.  - Russia (from the  Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara.  - History. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the area of present-day Okayama Prefecture was divided between Bitch, Bizen and Mimasaka Provinces. Okayama Prefecture was formed and named in 1871 as part of the large-scale administrative reforms of the early Meiji period (18681912), and the borders of the prefecture were set in 1876.  - The ancient capital and temples were built around Sja. For much of the Muromachi Period, the province was dominated by the Hosokawa clan, who resided in Shikoku and allowed the province a degree of independence. By the Sengoku Period, other clans fought over Bitchu, and Oda Nobunaga and Mri Terumoto were fighting in the province when Oda died, leading to a division of the province. After 1600, the province was divided among a variety of han (fiefs), and included a number of castles. By the time the provinces were reorganized into prefectures, the dominant city was the port, Kurashiki.  - The was a Japanese samurai kin group or clan History. The clan was descended from the Seiwa Genji, a branch of the Minamoto clan, and ultimately from Emperor Seiwa himself, through the Ashikaga clan. It produced many prominent officials in the Ashikaga shogunate's administration. In the Edo period, the Hosokawa clan was one of the largest landholding "daimy" families in Japan. In the present day, the current clan head Morihiro Hosokawa, has served as Prime Minister of Japan.  - Korea is a historical state in East Asia, since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states: North Korea (officially the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea") and South Korea (officially the "Republic of Korea"). Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast. It is separated from Japan to the east by the Korea Strait and the East Sea.  - The , also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868 through July 30, 1912. This period represents the first half of the Empire of Japan during which Japanese society moved from being an isolated feudal society to its modern form. Fundamental changes affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The period corresponded with the reign of Emperor Meiji after 1868, and lasted until his death in 1912. It was succeeded by the Taish period upon the accession of Emperor Taish to the throne.  - The is a period in Japanese history marked by social upheaval, political intrigue and near-constant military conflict. Japanese historians named it after the otherwise unrelated Warring States period in China. It came to an end when all political power was unified under the Tokugawa shogunate.    After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'ikeda nagaoki' exhibits the relationship of 'occupation'. Find the answer from the choices below.  Choices: - daimyo  - emperor  - major  - member  - military  - minister  - prior  - saint  - samurai  - sovereign  - taiwan
Answer:
samurai