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*''Japanese'': 献残屋 ''(kenzanya)'', 見参屋 ''(kenzanya)''
''Kenzanya'' were shops in [[Edo]] where ''daimyô'' and other samurai could purchase ceremonial objects to formally present to their lords or to others. Among these ceremonial goods were black-lacquered wooden swords, described in many documents as ''tsukuri tachi'' ("made swords" or "false swords"), which ''daimyô'' were obliged to present to the shogun on various regular occasions. Since the shogunate received hundreds or thousands of these ceremonial wooden swords on a regular basis, it regularly gave them to the ''kenzanya'', to be purchased and presented by the ''daimyô'' once again.
Though in the early [[Edo period]] it was common practice for ''daimyô'' to present the shogun with antique swords, often by famous smiths or with some notable provenance, Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] issued edicts in [[1722]] aimed at economizing the expensive practices of ritual gift exchange, and dramatically reduced the number of occasions when the presentation of a real sword was expected, and the range of ''daimyô'' who would be expected to do so. Those edicts also reduced the amount of [[silver]] to be presented by the ''daimyô'' by ninety percent, and reduced the amount of textiles and certain other goods to be presented similarly. Following the imposition of these reforms, while the most elite ''daimyô'' continued to present the shogun with real swords on various occasions, otherwise, the presentation of lacquered wooden ceremonial swords came to dominate, and the institution of the ''kenzanya'' grew in importance.
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==References==
*Fukai Masaumi 深井雅海, ''Tôken to kakutsuke'' 刀剣と格付け, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2018), 112-116.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
''Kenzanya'' were shops in [[Edo]] where ''daimyô'' and other samurai could purchase ceremonial objects to formally present to their lords or to others. Among these ceremonial goods were black-lacquered wooden swords, described in many documents as ''tsukuri tachi'' ("made swords" or "false swords"), which ''daimyô'' were obliged to present to the shogun on various regular occasions. Since the shogunate received hundreds or thousands of these ceremonial wooden swords on a regular basis, it regularly gave them to the ''kenzanya'', to be purchased and presented by the ''daimyô'' once again.
Though in the early [[Edo period]] it was common practice for ''daimyô'' to present the shogun with antique swords, often by famous smiths or with some notable provenance, Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] issued edicts in [[1722]] aimed at economizing the expensive practices of ritual gift exchange, and dramatically reduced the number of occasions when the presentation of a real sword was expected, and the range of ''daimyô'' who would be expected to do so. Those edicts also reduced the amount of [[silver]] to be presented by the ''daimyô'' by ninety percent, and reduced the amount of textiles and certain other goods to be presented similarly. Following the imposition of these reforms, while the most elite ''daimyô'' continued to present the shogun with real swords on various occasions, otherwise, the presentation of lacquered wooden ceremonial swords came to dominate, and the institution of the ''kenzanya'' grew in importance.
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==References==
*Fukai Masaumi 深井雅海, ''Tôken to kakutsuke'' 刀剣と格付け, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2018), 112-116.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
