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*Japanese: 三司官 ''(Sanshikan)''

* ''Japanese'': 三司官 ''(Sanshikan)''

 

The ''Sanshikan'', or "Council of Three", was a government body of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], which originally developed out of a council of regents.

The ''Sanshikan'', or "Council of Three", was a government body of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], which originally developed out of a council of regents.

The ''Sanshikan'' was dismantled along with the rest of the royal government when Ryûkyû was formally annexed by [[Meiji period|Meiji]] Japan in the 1870s. Members of Ryûkyû's aristocratic class were allowed to maintain some of their prestige and privileges, but even members of the Council were only afforded the equivalent of the sixth rank in the Japanese Imperial Court structure.

The ''Sanshikan'' was dismantled along with the rest of the royal government when Ryûkyû was formally annexed by [[Meiji period|Meiji]] Japan in the 1870s. Members of Ryûkyû's aristocratic class were allowed to maintain some of their prestige and privileges, but even members of the Council were only afforded the equivalent of the sixth rank in the Japanese Imperial Court structure.

==References==

==References==

*Kerr, George H. (2000). Okinawa: the History of an Island People. (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing.  

*Kerr, George H. (2000). Okinawa: the History of an Island People. (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing.  

*Smits, Gregory (1999). "Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics." Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

*Smits, Gregory (1999). "Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics." Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

 

[[Category:Ryukyu]]

[[Category:Ryukyu]]

[[Category:Political Institutions]]

[[Category:Political Institutions]]