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As [[Choshu han|Chôshû]] and other domains grew increasingly defiant against Tokugawa rule, the shogunate attempted in [[1864]] to reverse this relaxation of the obligations, and to restore the ''sankin kôtai'' system to its fuller strength. However, many ''daimyô'' refused to return to such a system, and offered a variety of excuses, as they began to request, year after year, exemption or deferral on traveling to Edo.<ref name=honjin54/> [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], the final lord of Satsuma han, citing illness or foot injuries and the need to soak in medicinal hot springs in his native Kagoshima, was one of a number of ''daimyô'' who thus never performed ''sankin kôtai'' at all, for the length of his rule.<ref>Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 377.</ref>

As [[Choshu han|Chôshû]] and other domains grew increasingly defiant against Tokugawa rule, the shogunate attempted in [[1864]] to reverse this relaxation of the obligations, and to restore the ''sankin kôtai'' system to its fuller strength. However, many ''daimyô'' refused to return to such a system, and offered a variety of excuses, as they began to request, year after year, exemption or deferral on traveling to Edo.<ref name=honjin54/> [[Shimazu Tadayoshi]], the final lord of Satsuma han, citing illness or foot injuries and the need to soak in medicinal hot springs in his native Kagoshima, was one of a number of ''daimyô'' who thus never performed ''sankin kôtai'' at all, for the length of his rule.<ref>Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 377.</ref>

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