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*''Date: [[1844]]''
*''Japanese'': 作名作官 ''(sakumei sakukan)''
The ''Sakumei sakukan'' ("invention of names, invention of offices") was a document created by the [[government of the Ryukyu Kingdom]] in November [[1844]], listing a series of false government offices which could be named in communications with Westerners, in order to keep the true hierarchies and structure of the kingdom's government secret.
The list concerned, chiefly, two top-ranking fake offices: the ''sôrikan'' (総理官) and ''fuseikan'' (布政官). Another fifteen were added in [[1848]].
The precise reasons for deploying such a policy, and for hiding the true titles of the government's offices, are unclear. The list was likely intended as only a temporary measure, initially, but after the arrival of yet another French ship, the ''[[Cleopatre]]'', in [[1846]], this policy became more permanent.
Historian [[Kamiya Nobuyuki]] suggests the reasons for the implementation of this policy may have had some connection to the [[Makishi-Onga Incident]] of [[1859]].
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==References==
*Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 142n255.
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
*''Japanese'': 作名作官 ''(sakumei sakukan)''
The ''Sakumei sakukan'' ("invention of names, invention of offices") was a document created by the [[government of the Ryukyu Kingdom]] in November [[1844]], listing a series of false government offices which could be named in communications with Westerners, in order to keep the true hierarchies and structure of the kingdom's government secret.
The list concerned, chiefly, two top-ranking fake offices: the ''sôrikan'' (総理官) and ''fuseikan'' (布政官). Another fifteen were added in [[1848]].
The precise reasons for deploying such a policy, and for hiding the true titles of the government's offices, are unclear. The list was likely intended as only a temporary measure, initially, but after the arrival of yet another French ship, the ''[[Cleopatre]]'', in [[1846]], this policy became more permanent.
Historian [[Kamiya Nobuyuki]] suggests the reasons for the implementation of this policy may have had some connection to the [[Makishi-Onga Incident]] of [[1859]].
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==References==
*Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 142n255.
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]