Sankin-kōtai (Japanese: 参覲交代/参覲交替, now commonly written as 参勤交代/参勤交替, 'alternate attendance') was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the...
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rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, control policies such as sankin-kōtai, resulted in peaceful relations. Daimyo were required to maintain residences...
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shogun and acknowledged the Laws for Warrior Houses or buke shohatto. The sankin-kōtai (参勤交代 "alternate attendance") system, required daimyos to travel to and...
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travelers to rest and buy supplies. The routes thrived due to the policy of sankin-kōtai, that required the daimyō (regional rulers) to travel in alternate years...
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branch of the Maeda clan. The daimyō of Toyama Domain was subject to sankin-kōtai, and was received in the Ōhiroma of Edo Castle. In 1639, the 3rd daimyō...
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samurai and daimyō residences, whose families lived in Edo as part of the sankin-kōtai system; the daimyō made journeys in alternating years to Edo and used...
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branch of the Maeda clan. The daimyō of Daishōji domain was subject to sankin-kōtai, and was received in the Ōhiroma of Edo Castle. Daishōji Castle was a...
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service to the daimyōs of feudal Japan. In the Edo period, the policy of sankin-kōtai (alternate attendance)1 required each daimyō to place a karō in Edo and...
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across Kyūshū from Chikushino to Kagoshima, used by daimyōs for the sankin-kōtai, and also by the lord of the Satsuma han on whom a similar obligation...
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domain was always eager to raise its incomes the expenses involved in its sankin kōtai obligation to visit the Shogun's court in Edo alternative years was extremely...
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