### id263564489 requiring elites to maintain two residences is burdensome > With the policy of *sankin-koutai*, daimyo had to maintain two residences--one in Edo, the capital, and the other in their feudal domain--and every other year, they would have to move their entire entourage to the capital. The vast amounts of money and effort required for a daimyo to keep both residences was meant to keep them from amassing enough power and wealth to start an uprising (and the requirement that the daimyo's primary wife and first son had to maintain permanent residence in Edo helped keep them in check as well). The influx of wealth into Edo and into the towns along the way where the daimyo's processions would stop to restock meant that the merchant class now had enough wealth to patronize the arts, as well. Edo Period merchants drove the demand for elegant kimono, the traditional display of power and wealth in Japan, and patronized other arts as well, both old and new. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fr217fnnhxmtegfq6eqhe1g6) - [[History of Kimino in the Edo Period by Katie Armstrong#id263564489 requiring elites to maintain two residences is burdensome|View in Vault]]