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Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan

Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan

Vaporis, Constantine N.

Hardcover

Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs, Book 163

Transportation GeneralJapanJapanese History

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ISBN10: 0674081072
ISBN13: 9780674081079
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Mar 1 1995
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.41 Width: 6.23 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
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, Constantine Vaporis challenges the notion that this system of travel regulations prevented widespread travel, maintaining instead that a culture of movement in Japan developed in the Tokugawa era. Using a combination of governmental documentation and travel literature, diaries, and wood-block prints, Vaporis examines the development of travel as recreation; he discusses the impact of pilgrimage and the institutionalization of alms-giving on the freedom of movement commoners enjoyed. By the end of the Tokugawa era, the popular nature of travel and a sophisticated system of roads were well established: Vaporis explores the reluctance of the bakufu to enforce its travel laws, and in doing so, beautifully evokes the character of the journey through Tokugawa Japan.

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