| Data: |
2022 |
| Resum: |
This study examines the practice of 'alternate attendance' (sankin kōtai), in which the daimyo lords of Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868) marched with their retainers between their home territories and the shogunal capital of Edo, roughly once a year. Research on alternate attendance has focused on the meaning of daimyo processions outside their domains (han), along Japan's highways and in the city of Edo. Here I argue that, even as daimyo embarked upon a journey to pay obeisance to the shogun, the ambiguous nature of sovereignty in early modern Japan meant that alternate attendance could also be used for a local agenda, ritually stamping the daimyo's territory with signs of his dominance, much like what has been highlighted in the study of royal processions in world history. I focus on the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, providing a case study of visits made by the Shimazu family, lords of Satsuma domain, to a village of Korean potters within their territory, whose antecedents had been brought as captives during the Imjin War of 1592-8. During daimyo visits, a relationship of mutual benefit and fealty between the Shimazu and the villagers was articulated through gift-giving, banqueting, dance and displays of local wares. This in turn was used to consolidate Shimazu power in their region. |
| Ajuts: |
European Commission 758347
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| Drets: |
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| Llengua: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar |
| Matèria: |
Japan ;
Korea ;
Early modern ;
Imjin War ;
Alternate atendance |
| Publicat a: |
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, May 2022, p. 1-24, ISSN 1474-0648 |
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