Sankin-kōtai
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Sankin-kōtai was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period, created to control the daimyo, the feudal lords of Japan, politically, and to keep them from attempting to overthrow
"En masse Attendance of Daimyo at Edo Castle on a Festive Day" from the Tokugawa Seiseiroku, National Museum of Japanese History
Sightseers and merchants gazing at an entourage (sixth panel) from "Folding Screen Depicting Scenes of the Attendance of Daimyōs at Edo Castle", National Museum of Japanese History
Tsuchiyama-juku
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Tsuchiyama-juku was the forty-ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the Tsuchiyama neighborhood of the present-day c
Hiroshige's print of Tsuchiyama-juku, part of the Hōeidō edition The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō series