Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

336 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

Alternate 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 betwe...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...