Question

Describe how the sankin-kotai system affected the Daimyo.

Answer 1

Answer: the financial drain it placed on the daimyo

Answer 2

The costs of the sankin kotai was the financial drain it placed on the daimyo, an economic and political cost of keeping the daimyo weak in relation to the shogun. ... Yet this cost allowed the Tokugawa to maintain its hegemony over Japan until 1862.