Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction

1. The Arms and Legs of the Realm


• Growth and Expansion of the Tokugawa System
• The Road Infrastructure
• Maintenance and General Road Conditions
• Bridges and River Crossings


2. The Social Organization of the Gokaido Network


• Sukego Taxation
• The Nature of the Sukega Levy
• Economic Problems of the Post Stations
• Contention and Confrontation


3. A Curious Institution


• Sekisho Before the Institutionalization of Alternate Attendance
• The 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. The 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


• The Development of a Travel Industry
• The Secularization of Pilgrimage
• The Major Pilgrimage Sites
• Social Participants

• Conclusion
• Appendices
• Notes
• List of Works Cited
• Index