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The years following the [[1868]] [[Meiji Restoration]] brought drastic changes within Japan, and for the kingdom in turn. The kingdom was briefly transformed into "Okinawa [[han]]", before the ''han'' were [[abolition of the han|abolished]] entirely in [[1871]]. The dissolution of Satsuma han brought the end of Ryukyu's vassal relationship. The kingdom itself was dissolved eight years later, in [[1879]], "Okinawa han" becoming Okinawa Prefecture and the royal family being incorporated into the new Western-style Japanese [[kazoku|aristocracy]]. [[Sho Tai|Shô Tai]], the last king of Ryukyu, was brought to [[Tokyo]] from Shuri, along with his family, and made a Marquis. The vast cultural, educational, and social changes which swept Japan in the [[Meiji period]] came to Okinawa later and more slowly. By the turn of the 20th century, however, assimilation efforts were well underway, aimed at transforming Okinawa, and its inhabitants, into part of a single homogeneous Japanese nation.
The years following the [[1868]] [[Meiji Restoration]] brought drastic changes within Japan, and for the kingdom in turn. The kingdom was briefly transformed into "Okinawa [[han]]", before the ''han'' were [[abolition of the han|abolished]] entirely in [[1871]]. The dissolution of Satsuma han brought the end of Ryukyu's vassal relationship. The kingdom itself was dissolved eight years later, in [[1879]], "Okinawa han" becoming Okinawa Prefecture and the royal family being incorporated into the new Western-style Japanese [[kazoku|aristocracy]]. [[Sho Tai|Shô Tai]], the last king of Ryukyu, was brought to [[Tokyo]] from Shuri, along with his family, and made a Marquis. The vast cultural, educational, and social changes which swept Japan in the [[Meiji period]] came to Okinawa later and more slowly. By the turn of the 20th century, however, assimilation efforts were well underway, aimed at transforming Okinawa, and its inhabitants, into part of a single homogeneous Japanese nation.
==Notes==
==List of Kings of Ryûkyû==
#[[Sho Shisho|Shô Shishô]] (r. [[1406]]-[[1421]])
#[[Sho Hashi|Shô Hashi]] (r. [[1422]]-[[1439]])
#[[Sho Chu|Shô Chû]] (r. [[1440]]-[[1444]])
#[[Sho Shitatsu|Shô Shitatsu]] (r. 1444-[[1449]])
#[[Sho Kinpuku|Shô Kinpuku]] (r. [[1450]]-[[1453]])
#[[Sho Taikyu|Shô Taikyû]] (r. [[1454]]-[[1461]])
#[[Sho Toku|Shô Toku]] (r. 1461-[[1469]])
#[[Sho En|Shô En]] (r. 1469-[[1476]])
#[[Sho Seni|Shô Sen'i]] (r. [[1477]])
#[[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]] (r. 1477-[[1526]])
#[[Sho Sei (尚清)|Shô Sei]] (r. [[1527]]-[[1555]])
#[[Sho Gen|Shô Gen]] (r. [[1556]]-[[1572]])
#[[Sho Ei|Shô Ei]] (r. [[1573]]-[[1588]])
#[[Sho Nei|Shô Nei]] (r. [[1589]]-[[1620]])
#[[Sho Ho|Shô Hô]] (r. [[1621]]-[[1640]])
#[[Sho Ken|Shô Ken]] (r. [[1641]]-[[1647]])
#[[Sho Shitsu|Shô Shitsu]] (r. [[1648]]-[[1668]])
#[[Sho Tei|Shô Tei]] (r. [[1669]]-[[1709]])
#[[Sho Eki|Shô Eki]] (r. [[1710]]-[[1712]])
#[[Sho Kei|Shô Kei]] (r. [[1713]]-[[1752]])
#[[Sho Boku|Shô Boku]] (r. 1752-[[1795]])
#[[Sho On|Shô On]] (r. 1795-[[1802]])
#[[Sho Sei (尚成)|Shô Sei]] (r. [[1803]]-[[1804]])
#[[Sho Ko (尚灝)|Shô Kô]] (r. 1804-[[1834]])
#[[Sho Iku|Shô Iku]] (r. [[1835]]-[[1847]])
#[[Sho Tai|Shô Tai]] (r. [[1848]]-[[1872]])
==References==
==Notes & References==
*[[Hamashita Takeshi|Hamashita, Takeshi]]. 沖縄入門 (''Okinawa nyuumon''). Tokyo: Chikumashobou (筑摩書房), 2000.
*[[Hamashita Takeshi|Hamashita, Takeshi]]. 沖縄入門 (''Okinawa nyuumon''). Tokyo: Chikumashobou (筑摩書房), 2000.
*[[George Kerr|Kerr, George]]. ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People.'' (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000.
*[[George Kerr|Kerr, George]]. ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People.'' (revised ed.) Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000.
*[[Gregory Smits|Smits, Gregory]]. ''Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics''. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
*[[Gregory Smits|Smits, Gregory]]. ''Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics''. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
*Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987).
*Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987).
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==See also==
==See also==