参さん勤きん交こう代たい

noun

alternate attendance; daimyo's alternating Edo residence

Historical term for the Edo-period system requiring daimyo to reside in Edo every other year, leaving family as hostages. Often explained as a mechanism to control feudal lords.

• 参さん勤きん交こう代たいは江え戸ど時じ代だいの重じゅう要ような制せい度どだった。

  Alternate attendance was an important system in the Edo period.

• 大だい名みょうは参さん勤きん交こう代たいで多た額がくの費ひ用ようを負ふ担たんした。

  Daimyo bore huge expenses due to the alternate attendance system.