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• Title:Breaking barriers : travel and the state in early modern Japan / Constantine Nomikos Vaporis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Vaporis, Constantine Nomikos, 1957-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1994.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HE277 .V36 1994
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Transportation--Japan--History.
  Transportation and state--Japan--History.
  Travel restrictions--Japan--History.
  Travel--Japan--History.
  
• Description:xii, 372 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 163.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-361) and index.
  
• ISBN:0674081072 :
  
• Contents:1. Arms and Legs of the Realm
  Growth and Expansion of the Tokugawa System
  Road Infrastructure
  Maintenance and General Road Conditions
  Bridges and River Crossings
  2. Social Organization of the Gokaido Network
  Sukego Taxation
  Nature of the Sukego Levy
  Economic Problems of the Post Stations
  Contention and Confrontation
  3. Curious Institution
  Sekisho Before the Institutionalization of Alternate Attendance
  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. 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
  Development of a Travel Industry
  Secularization of Pilgrimage
  Major Pilgrimage Sites
  Social Participants.