Early Modern Japan
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In an essay on kingship and charisma, Clifford Geertz once likened the use of fêtes, bestowals of gifts, processions, and other public acts associated with royal accession ceremonies to the “spreading of scent” by widely ranging wolves and tigers. While perhaps a crude equation of culturally and religiously inspired human rituals with the socio-biology of animals, Geertz drew upon this juxtaposition to note that claimants to royal power have regularly used public displays of authority and munificence to ceremonially “mark” their presence in newly gained lands, and thereby reinforce their claims to legitimacy. Geertz’s analysis centers on the performative aspects of this ritual marking, but he draws implicit attention to the materiality of these processes as well. Whether in England, India or North Africa, his descriptions of such events as Elizabeth I’s procession through London, or Mulay Hasan’s illfated tour of Morocco in 1893, illustrate the role of rituals and the physical objects they produced as vehicles for the symbolic imposition of royal marks of domination. Furthermore, it is evident that once touched by the ritual context, these material media were transformed into lingering reminders of royal authority and the royal presence that continued to influence local perceptions long after the ruler physically left the scene of enactment. In this brief essay I will use this notion of ritually-derived physical marks to consider some social implications of patronage in early modern Japanese society. More specifically, I will look at two interrelated set of practices, one of which is concerns warrior reliance upon ceremonies and
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Early Modern Japan
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