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• Gozabune
  ...e:Choshu-gozabune.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Members of a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] aboard the ''gozabune'' of the lord of [[Choshu han|Chôshû domain]], as ...ained designated families of shipwrights (''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'') to build and maintain their vessels.
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• Xu Baoguang
  ...urney to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] as an [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture envoy]], and for his writings on that journey. ...n also included 600 additional people, including cartographers who set out to map the archipelago.<ref>Schottenhammer, Angela. "The East Asian maritime w
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• Li Dingyuan
  ...y]] official who served as vice-envoy on a [[Chinese investiture mission]] to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] led by [[Zhao Wenkai]] in [[1800]]. ...apan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
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• Chuzan seifu
  ...gly emphasize Ryûkyû's connections to China, while downplaying connections to Japan. ...apan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
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• Ryukyuan royal seal
  ...etry: China's Place in Asia'' (NUS Press, 2009), 13-14. </ref> It was used to authorize official documents, both within the kingdom, and in communication ...certain other kingdoms, it was made of gilded silver. This was in contrast to the seals bestowed upon the kings of [[Joseon]] dynasty Korea and the [[Mur
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• Satsuma Edo mansion
  ...Edo in accordance with his ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' obligations. To maintain five mansions in the city was exceptional; most smaller domains ma ...ka-yashiki'' ("middle mansion").<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 103.</r
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• Tei Junsoku
  [[Image:Teijunsoku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A monument to Tei Junsoku on the grounds of the [[Shiseibyo|Confucian temple]] in [[Kumem ...o Edo" 「琉球人行列と江戸」, in ''Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen'' 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編、Research Cen
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• Engaku-ji (Okinawa)
  ...on, with the pond, bridge, and outer gate area seen above off of the photo to the right.]] ...rgest Buddhist temple in the islands.<ref>Hirakawa Nobuyuki, "A History of Ryukyuan Painting," ''Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and
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• Kaisen
  [[File:Shinkosen.JPG|right|thumb|320px|A model of a Ryukyuan [[tribute]] ship, on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...e Ryukyuan ships were not identical to Chinese styles, and bore distinctly Ryukyuan features which set them apart.
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• Korean tribute missions to China
  ...h China. However, combined with the costs of receiving [[Chinese embassies to Korea]], the relationship was profoundly expensive for the Korean court, an ...own as ''ch'ŏnch'u'' (千秋). Towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, Korea came to send instead only one annual mission, at the time of the winter solstice, a
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• Shunzhi Emperor
  ...unzhi Emperor was the third emperor of the [[Qing Dynasty]], and the first to rule from [[Beijing]], with all of China under his dominion. ...and other rebels as well as [[Ming loyalists|Ming pretenders]] who sought to restore the [[Ming Dynasty]]. Dorgon also put into place many of the struct
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• Kumi odori
  ...t was revived beginning in the 1970s. Following the restoration of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, ''kumi odori'' was named an "important intang ''Kumi odori'' was first performed on 1719/9/9, at a banquet for the Chinese envoys on the occasion of the [[investiture]] of King [[Sho Kei|Shô Kei]]. It was
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• Nakamura family
  ...erating the town's ''[[honjin]]'' (official lodging for shogunal & foreign envoys, ''daimyô'', and other elite guests). The family's records, some 26 volume ..., he began an enterprise brewing a medicinal liquor; this would later come to be called ''homeishu''.
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• Kamagari
  ...]]'' and other officials and elites regularly stopped at Kamagari in the [[Edo period]]. It was an officially designated ''[[kaieki]]'' (maritime post-sta ...honjin]]'' inn in the main central port of Kamagari.<ref>Peter Shapinsky, “Envoys and Escorts: Representation and Performance among Koxinga’s Japanese Pira
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• 1609
  ...[Tsushima han]] and Joseon Korea. Among the stipulations are that Japanese envoys do not travel deeper into Korea beyond [[Pusan]]. ...he senior [[Shimazu clan]] retainers meet and choose [[Kabayama Hisataka]] to lead the invasion. The invasion forces leave [[Kagoshima]] for [[Yamakawa]]
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• Tomonoura
  ...<ref>Mouri Kazuo (2016), “The concept of ‘cultural landscapes’ in relation to the historic port town of Tomo,” in Matsuda, Akira and Mengoni, Luisa Ele ...戸上りと御手洗, Shiomachi kankô kôryû Center 潮待ち館観光交流センター (2001), 3.</ref> Korean envoys visiting Tomo ten years later (in [[1617]]) wrote that Tomo was even greate
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• Uzagaku
  ...Year's and [[Mid-Autumn Festival]]; enthronement and [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture]] ceremonies; and the like. ...14 (2013), 58-59.</ref><ref>Chia-Ying Yeh, "The Revival and Restoration of Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language U
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• Shimazu Shigehide
  ...ly not permitted to enter within the borders of the domain for much of the Edo period, during Shigehide's reign this was relaxed. ...accompanied a [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]], and was elevated in court rank to Upper Junior Fourth Rank. This was the only such mission he escorted as act
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• Ryukyu lacquerware
  [[Image:Ryukyu-dragon-platter.jpg|right|thumb|320px|An example of Ryukyuan red lacquer platters, with mother-of-pearl inlay dragon design.]] ...the styles and techniques employed in China, Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, Ryukyuan lacquerware followed its own unique historical trajectory, resulting in uni
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• Narahara Shigeru
  ...Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]], serving in that position from [[1892]] to [[1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the servic ===Edo Period===
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