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Sankin kōtai (Topical Term)

Number of records used in: 2
Preferred form: Sankin kōtai
Used for/see from:
  • Alternate attendance (Japanese feudalism)
See also:

Work cat.: 2008007212: Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos. Tour of duty, 2008: ECIP introd. (Alternate attendance, sankin kôtai)

Kodansha encyc. Japan (sankin kotai (alternate attendance): a rule of the Tokugawa shogunate whereby daimyo were required to reside in alternate years at Edo in attendance on the shogun)

Encyc. Britannica, c1995: v. 10, p. 419 (sankin kōtai: system by which daimyo had to reside several months each year at Edo)

Here are entered works on the system whereby daimyo during the Tokugawa period of Japanese history were required to reside for alternating periods in Edo and in their home domains.