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...

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...

rebellious, but for most of the Edo period, control policies such as sankin-kōtai, resulted in peaceful relations. Daimyo were required to maintain residences...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

barracks for months at a time, and conjugal separation resulted from the sankin-kōtai system and the merchants' need to travel to obtain and sell goods. It...

road across Kyūshū from Kokura to Nagasaki, used by daimyōs for the sankin-kōtai, and also by the chief of the Dutch trading post at Nagasaki on whom...

Samurai Hustle (lit. Mission Impossible: Samurai) (超高速!参勤交代, Chōkōsoku! Sankin Kōtai) is a 2014 Japanese jidaigeki comedy film directed by Katsuhide Motoki...

Hiroshige forms a travelogue of the Tōkaidō. Daimyō, making the required sankin-kōtai trip between their han and Edo, also traveled along the kaidō and stayed...

allowed; required feudal lords to reside in Edo every other year (the sankin-kōtai system); prohibited the construction of ocean-going ships; restricted...

taxation. The daimyō held significant autonomy but the Tokugawa policy of sankin-kōtai required them to alternate living in Edo and their domain every year...

the class of kōtai-yoriai, men who were heads of hatamoto families and held provincial fiefs, and had alternate attendance (sankin-kōtai) duties like...

akin to kowtow Maundy (foot washing), another act of extreme humility Sankin-kōtai, Japan Shuysky Tribute, a similar Eastern European practice Sujud, prostration...

jidaigeki. Each daimyō maintained a residence in Edo, where he lived during sankin-kōtai. His wife and children remained there even while he was away from Edo...

import of Western knowledge and technology. The alternate attendance (sankin-kōtai) rules were relaxed. This policy was a burden on daimyōs, due to the...

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...

built and resided in Kanazawa Castle. With the establishment of the sankin-kōtai system of alternative attendance in Edo, Toshinaga was the first daimyō...

their roofs were somewhat fire-resistant. There was a system called sankin-kōtai (alternative residence), in which daimyo were required to live both in...

the times, including kabuki, bunraku, and ukiyo-e, and practices like sankin kōtai and pilgrimages to the Ise Shrine, feature in many works set in Edo Japan...

joined the Kumamoto lord Hosokawa Narimori and went to Edo for his lord's sankin-kōtai rotation. It was during his service to the lord in Edo that Commodore...

unpopular with many daimyōs, but Iemitsu simply removed his opponents. His sankin-kōtai system forced daimyōs to reside in Edo in alternating sequence, spending...

received special exceptions from the shogunate in regard to the policy of sankin-kōtai, another policy meant to restrict the wealth and power of the daimyō...

camps for months at a time, and conjugal separation resulted from the sankin-kōtai system and the merchants' need to travel to obtain and sell goods. Records...

Tokugawa bakufu's implementation of the system of alternate attendance, or sankin-kōtai. Directing trade predominantly through Nagasaki, which came under Toyotomi...

Many feudal lords from Shinano Province made use of the road during sankin-kōtai, including those from the Takatō, Suwa and Iida domains. The Kōshū Kaidō's...

were exempt from owing rice to the shōgun in tribute, and from the sankin-kōtai system established by Tokugawa Ieyasu, under which most lords (daimyōs)...