jidaishi

Updated: May 25, 2025

Anyone whose name was not enrolled on one of the above lists fell under suspicion of embracing the foreign faith. Referring to the above laws the Tokugawa Jidaishi says: "The above laws and regulations were the Constitution of the Tokugawa Bakufu. By the aid of their provisions the influence of Yedo was extended to every part of the nation from the Imperial Court to the world of religion.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

According to a recognized historical authority, writing in the Tokugawa Jidaishi, such marriages were inspired by one or more of the following motives: that the bride or bridegroom should serve as a hostage; that the wedding should contribute to cement an alliance between the families of the bride and the bridegroom; that the wedding should become a means of spying into the affairs of one of the families; that it should be an instrument for sowing seeds of enmity between the two families.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

They are thus summarized by the Kamakura Jidaishi: "The conditions of the time called two parties into existence: the Kyoto party and the military party. To the former belonged not only many officials of Shinto shrines, priests of Buddhist temples, and managers of private manors, but also a few nominal retainers of the Bakufu.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era