Ryūkyū Domain
Ryūkyū Province (琉球国 Ryūkyū-no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Okinawa Prefecture at the Pacific edge of the East China Sea.[1]
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History [change]
In 1609, Japanese forces invaded the Ryūkyū Kingdom.[2] After this, the Ryukyuan kings were forced to pay annual tribute to the Shimazu clan of Satsuma Province and the islands became a province of Japan.[3] At the same time, the kingdom and its rulers remained carefully independent.[4]
The kingdom was replaced by the Ryūkyū Domain which existed from 1872 through 1879.[5]
In 1879, Okinawa Prefecture was established.[6] At the same time, the province continued to exist for some purposes. For example, Ryūkyū Province is mentioned in 1894 treaties with the United States and the United Kingdom.[7]
Shrines and Temples [change]
Naminoue Shrine was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the Ryukyu Islands.[8] In 1890, the shrine was recognized in the system of State Shinto. It is among the ranked, nationally significant shrines or Kanpei-shōsha (官幣小社) which includes five sanctuaries.[9]
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References [change]
- ↑ See Kerr, George H. (1953). Ryukyu Kingdom and Province before 1945.
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ryūkyū Islands," Japan Encyclopedia, p. 801; Fassbender, Bardo et al. (2012). The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, p. 483.
- ↑ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia and the development of the Tokugawa bakufu, pp. 45-46.
- ↑ Smits, Gregory. (1999). Visions of Ryūkyū: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics, p. 28.
- ↑ Matsumura, Wendy. (2007). Becoming Okinawan: Japanese Capitalism and Changing Representations of Okinawa, p. 38; excerpt, "March 27, 1879 marks the birth of Okinawa Prefecture and the death of the short-lived Ryukyu domain, which itself came into being on September 14, 1872, replacing the Ryukyu kingdom."
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Okinawa-ken," pp. 746-747.
- ↑ US Department of State. (1906). A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759.
- ↑ Ponsonby-Fane, Richard. (1959). The Imperial House of Japan, p. 127.
- ↑ List of Kankokuheisha (官国幣社), p. 3; retrieved 2012-8-26.
Other websites [change]
Media related to Ryukyu Province at Wikimedia Commons- Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
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