Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Pottery, Power and Foreign Spectacle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebekah Clements (0000-0003-2597-0882, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Pages | 135-158 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0080440122000056 |
| OpenAlex | W4229033848 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
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
Ancient history · Attendance · Dominance (genetics · Economic history · Geography · Political science · Politics · Pottery · Power (physics · Sovereignty · Spectacle · Chinese history and philosophy · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |