Tour of duty : Samurai, military service in Edo, and the culture of early modern Japan /
"Aternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2008.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Aternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where they waited upon the Tokugawa shogun. Based on a prodigious amount of research in both published and archival primary sources, Tour of Duty renders alternate attendance as a lived experience, for not only the daimyo but also the samurai retainers who accompanied them Beyond exploring the nature of travel to and from the capital as well as the period of enforced bachelorhood there, Constantine Vaporis elucidates - for the first time - the significance of alternate attendance as an engine of cultural, intellectual, material, and technological exchange."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441619785 144161978X 9780824865245 0824865243 0824834704 9780824834708 9780824868789 0824868781 |
