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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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2008.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |