Tour of duty : samurai, military service in Edo, and the culture of early modern Japan / Constantine Nomikos Vaporis.

Main entry:

Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos, 1957-

Title & Author:

Tour of duty : samurai, military service in Edo, and the culture of early modern Japan / Constantine Nomikos Vaporis.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-312) and index.
Beginnings -- The Road to Edo (and Back) -- The Daimyo Procession -- Assignment : Edo -- Daimyo Compounds : Place and Space -- Life in the Capital -- Carriers of Culture.

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.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780824832056 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0824832051 (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sankin kōtai.
Daimyo.
Daimyō.
Tokugawa period, Japan, 1600-1868.
Samurajer.
Japan History Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.
Japon Histoire 1600-1868 (Époque des Tokugawa)
Japan.
Tokio

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259752
Call No.: BIB 190675
Status: Available

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