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The final planning stages for the invasion took place in the second lunar month of Keichô 14 (1609). On the sixth day of that month, the senior Shimazu retainers met and named [[Kabayama Hisataka]] to lead the invasion as ''sôtaishô''; [[Hirata Masamune]] would serve as his second in command. This marked the beginning of the gathering of forces for the invasion.

The final planning stages for the invasion took place in the second lunar month of Keichô 14 (1609). On the sixth day of that month, the senior Shimazu retainers met and named [[Kabayama Hisataka]] to lead the invasion as ''sôtaishô''; [[Hirata Masamune]] would serve as his second in command. This marked the beginning of the gathering of forces for the invasion.

The Satsuma forces were instructed to withdraw from the islands as soon as their military objectives were accomplished, and to return to Satsuma no later than the fifth or sixth month. To that end, in order to help ensure the efficiency of the mission, instructions were given to avoid excessive antagonism of the common people, by desecrating palaces, shrines or temples, or by scattering Confucian materials. In the end, the invasion would successfully adhere to its planned timeframe, securing the submission of even the outlying [[Sakishima Islands]] and departing from the Ryukyus before the end of the fifth month.

A set of guidelines issued on 1609/2/26, entitled ''Ryûkyû tokai no gunshû hatto no jôjô'' and signed by [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]], [[Shimazu Yoshihisa|Yoshihisa]], and [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Iehisa]], instructed Shimazu forces to withdraw from the islands as soon as their military objectives were accomplished, and to return to Satsuma no later than the fifth or sixth month. To that end, in order to help ensure the efficiency of the mission, instructions were given to avoid excessive antagonism of the common people; this included bans on desecrating palaces, shrines or temples, or by scattering Confucian materials; violence against peasants; and the kidnapping of local people.<ref>Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', 226.</ref> In the end, the invasion would successfully adhere to its planned timeframe, securing the submission of even the outlying [[Sakishima Islands]] and departing from the Ryukyus before the end of the fifth month.

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