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*''Japanese'': 新垣 or 新嘉喜 ''(Niigaki or Aragaki)''

*''Japanese'': [[新垣]] or 新嘉喜 ''(Niigaki or Aragaki)''

Niigaki (given name unknown) was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] aristocrat who later became a samurai in the service of [[Satsuma han]]. He is thus an important example of a very rare number of cases of Ryukyuans being permitted/able to come to be regarded as (fully) Japanese.

Niigaki (given name unknown) was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] aristocrat who later became a samurai in the service of [[Satsuma han]]. He is thus an important example of a very rare number of cases of Ryukyuans being permitted/able to come to be regarded as (fully) Japanese.