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However, Zusho had a particularly significant impact upon the production of sugar in the Amami Islands, where "a structure of colonial extraction,"<ref>Hellyer, 95.</ref> as one scholar described it, was already in place from nearly the beginning of the 17th century. Zusho re-established a monopoly the domain administration had previously exercised over the sugar produced there, claiming it all from the islanders for roughly 1/3 the price it would earn on the Osaka market. He also expanded the plantation-like exploitation of the island by mandating that all rice paddies on the islands be drained and replaced with fields of sugar cane. Men between the ages of 15 to 60, and women from the age of 13 to 50, were assigned fields to work, and were obliged to purchase all of their food and other necessities from Satsuma officials, often at raised prices; the islanders were further forbidden from using money on the island, and from trading amongst themselves.

However, Zusho had a particularly significant impact upon the production of sugar in the Amami Islands, where "a structure of colonial extraction,"<ref>Hellyer, 95.</ref> as one scholar described it, was already in place from nearly the beginning of the 17th century. Zusho re-established a monopoly the domain administration had previously exercised over the sugar produced there, claiming it all from the islanders for roughly 1/3 the price it would earn on the Osaka market. He also expanded the plantation-like exploitation of the island by mandating that all rice paddies on the islands be drained and replaced with fields of sugar cane. Men between the ages of 15 to 60, and women from the age of 13 to 50, were assigned fields to work, and were obliged to purchase all of their food and other necessities from Satsuma officials, often at raised prices; the islanders were further forbidden from using money on the island, and from trading amongst themselves.

He was named ''[[karo|karô]]'' in [[1832]].

He was named ''[[karo|karô]]'' in [[1832]] and that same year accompanied a [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].<ref>Gallery labels, ''Okinawa fukki 50 nen kinen tokubetsu ten Ryukyu'' 沖縄復帰50年記念　特別展「琉球」exhibit, Tokyo National Museum, 2022.</ref>

==1840s==

==1840s==