Sankin Kōtai
This is a scene depicting a daimyo procession for sankin kōtai, the system of alternate attendence in which Japanese feudal lords would have to spend one compulsory year in the Shogun's capital of Edo and the next back in their home domain.
This is a diorama at the Futagawa Honjin Museum in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture.
Futagawa is a post town in the province of Mikawa (present day Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture) Futagawa, if you were approaching it from Edo, was the 33rd of 53 post towns along the Tōkaidō Road. In its hey-day, the town hosted one honjin inn for daimyo, imperial messengers and other people of importance and 30 hatago inns for other travelers.
Sankin Kōtai
This is a scene depicting a daimyo procession for sankin kōtai, the system of alternate attendence in which Japanese feudal lords would have to spend one compulsory year in the Shogun's capital of Edo and the next back in their home domain.
This is a diorama at the Futagawa Honjin Museum in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture.
Futagawa is a post town in the province of Mikawa (present day Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture) Futagawa, if you were approaching it from Edo, was the 33rd of 53 post towns along the Tōkaidō Road. In its hey-day, the town hosted one honjin inn for daimyo, imperial messengers and other people of importance and 30 hatago inns for other travelers.