Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis

402 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative medium-paced
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Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits; commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, frequently ignoring the laws de...

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