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参勤交代 (sankinkoutai) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
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Alternate attendance was an important system in the Edo period.
Daimyo bore huge expenses due to the alternate attendance system.
Kanji 参 nonplussed, three (in documents), going 勤 diligence, become employed, serve 交 mingle, mixing, association 代 substitute, change, convert 覲 see, have an audience with 替 exchange, spare, substitute Related words 大だい 名みょう 参勤交代 was a duty imposed on 大名 (feudal lords) by the Tokugawa shogunate.
江え 戸ど 参勤交代 required daimyo to travel to and reside in 江戸 (Edo, now Tokyo) periodically.
Written forms 参さん 勤きん 交こう 代たい
Standard modern spelling for the Edo-period system.
参さん 覲きん 交こう 代たい
ateji (phonetic kanji usage) rarely-used kanji form
Ateji spelling using 覲; rarely used.
参さん 勤きん 交こう 替たい
rarely-used kanji form
Variant with 交替; rarely used.
Etymology Compound of 参勤 (attendance) and 交代 (alternation). The term describes the system established in the early Edo period, formalized under the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.
