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sankin-kōtai

daimyō's alternate-year residence in Edo, a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate
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Summary

sankin-kōtai is a policy[1]. sankin-kōtai draws 2,178 Wikipedia views per month (policy category, ranking #15 of 86).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Japan[3]
  • Instance of: hostage policy[4]
  • Main regulatory text: Buke shohatto[5]
  • Subclass of: gun'yaku[6]
  • Commons category: Sankin kōtai[7]
  • Start time: 1635[8]
  • End time: 1862[9]
  • Participant: daimyo[10]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: Tokugawa shogunate[11]
  • Time period: Edo period[12]

Why It Matters

sankin-kōtai has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] sankin-kōtai is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved . britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5d ago · 日巫女 · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'he', 'id', 'i
    Sitelink count → 27
    Fandom article id → shinto:Sankin-kōtai
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Fandom article id: shinto:Sankin-kōtai, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/289721|batch #289721]]"
  2. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    End time → —
    Start time → +1635-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Applies to jurisdiction → Tokugawa shogunate
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007542578405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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