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Breaking barriers : travel and the state in early modern Japan /
Travel in Tokugawa Japan was officially controlled by bakufu and domainal authorities via an elaborate system of barriers, or sekisho, and travel permits; commoners, however, found ways to circumvent these barriers, frequently ignoring the laws designed to control their mobility. In this study, Cons...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University,
1994.
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
163. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Arms and Legs of the Realm. Growth and Expansion of the Tokugawa System. The Road Infrastructure. Maintenance and General Road Conditions. Bridges and River Crossings
- 2. The Social Organization of the Gokaido Network. Sukego Taxation. The Nature of the Sukego Levy. Economic Problems of the Post Stations. Contention and Confrontation
- 3. A Curious Institution. Sekisho Before the Institutionalization of Alternate Attendance. The Strategic Role of Sekisho. Military and Police Functions. Guard Force and Back-up Mechanisms. Sekisho Regulations and Policy. Maintaining Civil Peace. Domain Barriers
- 4. Permits and Passages. Applying for a Travel Permit. Types and Methods. Who Needed a Travel Permit? Women and Travel Permits. Passing Through the Barriers
- 5. The Benevolence of the Realm. Flexibility with Defective Permits. Entering the Brush. Short-cuts and Cross-Dressing. Graft and the Purchase of Permits. Attempts to Regulate Pilgrimage
- 6. Travel as Recreation.