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Over the course of the 1870s, through a great many individual steps, the [[Meiji government]] gradually abolished the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and seized control of its territory. Spurred by the [[Taiwan Incident of 1871]], this began with the [[1872]] reorganization of the Kingdom as "[[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]]," and culminated with a series of actions in [[1876]]-[[1879]] known as the ''Ryûkyû shobun'', a plan suggested by [[Minister of the Interior]] [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]] and executed under the supervision of [[Matsuda Michiyuki]].
Over the course of the 1870s, through a great many individual steps, the [[Meiji government]] gradually abolished the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and seized control of its territory. Spurred by the [[Taiwan Incident of 1871]], this began with the [[1872]] reorganization of the Kingdom as "[[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]]," and culminated with a series of actions in [[1876]]-[[1879]] known as the ''Ryûkyû shobun'', a plan suggested by [[Minister of the Interior]] [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]] and executed under the supervision of [[Matsuda Michiyuki]].
The population of the islands at the time of the ''shobun'' is said to have been over 310,000 people, occupying over 63,000 homes.<ref>''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 48.</ref>
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