`:::I agree with what you suggest here, i.e. to go with what the Japanese wiki is doing. The weird thing about Kuroishi is that apparently it proves that you don't have to be a daimyo to rule a han...so the rulers of Kuroishi 1 to 6 (6 being Chikatari) are kōtai-yoriai hatamoto, but then after Chikatari gets his income raised over the 10,000 koku threshold, he goes from being the hatamoto ruler number 6, to being the first daimyo of Kuroishi...the Japanese wiki just gives him two infoboxes, one for ruling Kuroishi as a hatamoto, the other for ruling it as a daimyo. Anyway, yeah, you're right, I'll just go with what the Japanese wiki is saying, and denote ``6th Lord of Kuroishi (as hatamoto)`` or something to that effect. -    `