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• Ryukyu Shobun
  ...eople, occupying over 63,000 homes.<ref name=shisetsu48>''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (20 ...ncies. Rather, the word ''shobun'' is much more closely related in meaning to the English word "disposal."
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• Kumemura
  [[File:Shiseibyo-gate.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The main gate to the [[Shiseibyo|Shiseibyô]] Confucian temple on Kume Ôdôri]] ...and [[Beijing]], as well as heading the reception of [[Chinese investiture envoys]] in Ryûkyû, and drafting official diplomatic documents.
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• Tribute
  [[File:Shinkosen.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Model of a Ryukyuan tribute ship (''shinkôsen'') at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...ere permitted to trade or barter a considerable portion of their cargo, or to have it bartered for them by the local Chinese port official, as "private b
  27 KB (4,146 words) - 02:09, 18 August 2020
• Chinese investiture envoys
  ...le:Investiture-YamaguchiSuio.jpg|right|thumb|500px|The Chinese investiture envoys ceremony at [[Shuri castle]], as depicted in a [[1788]] handscroll painting *''Other Names'': 天使 ''(C: tiān-shǐ)''<ref>lit. "Heavenly envoys," i.e. ambassadors from the Son of Heaven, i.e. the Chinese Emperor.</ref>
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• Ming loyalists
  ...to restore the [[Ming Dynasty]], or fled to Japan and elsewhere, refusing to serve under a "barbarian" dynasty. The [[Qing Dynasty]] suppressed the last ...ure]]/tribute relations between China and Ryûkyû, after a previous attempt to send an investiture mission in [[1654]] was blocked by the naval forces of
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• Korean embassies to Edo
  ...] ''Chôsenjin daigyôretsuki'', a book published and widely circulated in [[Edo]] in conjunction with popular excitement and interest around that year's mi ...''kaitôken sakkanshi'') was in fact more commonly used at the time, in the Edo period, while ''tsûshinshi'' was used by the Japanese more commonly in the
  37 KB (5,739 words) - 08:49, 25 July 2022
• Satsuma han
  ...fecture in dark green. Satsuma han covered this territory, along with some to the northeast, in Hyûga province.]] ...re, plus parts of Miyazaki prefecture. As one of only ten ''daimyô'' clans to control (at least) an entire province, the Shimazu were considered ''[[kuni
  27 KB (4,169 words) - 02:53, 13 September 2022
• Tokaido
  ...nd literature, the Tôkaidô carried massive ''daimyô'' entourages traveling to and from the shogunal capital on ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' journey ...n the Pre-Modern World'', Wiley-Blackwell (2012), 90-105.</ref> from Tokyo to Kyoto, mostly near the Pacific coast. Today, the National Route #1 expressw
  11 KB (1,712 words) - 06:59, 15 August 2020
• Ryukyu seasonal observances
  [[File:Ni-nu-faa.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The King bowing to the altar to Heaven, during a modern reenactment of the ''Ni-nu-faa nu unu-fee'' ceremon [[File:Cho-nu-fee.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Scholar-aristocrats kowtowing to the king, during a reenactment of the ''Chô nu unu-fee'' ceremony, Jan 1,
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• Honjin
  ...poses, in place of or in addition to a ''honjin''.<ref>''Umimichi wo yuku: Edo jidai no Seto Naikai'' 海道をゆく－江戸時代の瀬戸内海－, Mu ...in to [[Edo]] as part of the fulfillment of that lord's feudal obligations to ''his'' lord (the shogun).
  21 KB (3,226 words) - 06:15, 17 July 2020
• Sanshin
  ...shamisen)'', 沖縄蛇味線 ''(Okinawa jamisen)'', 蛇皮線 ''(jabisen)''<ref>Referring to the sanshin as "Okinawa shamisen" or simply "shamisen" is common among Okin ...now widely available.　The wood is typically selected from pieces laid out to dry for as much as three years. The rough shape of the instrument's neck is
  25 KB (3,931 words) - 09:12, 21 April 2020
• Sankin kotai
  ...nd contributed significantly to the samurai-heavy demographic character of Edo. ...e domains, as well as retired former lords, were obliged to travel between Edo and the home domain, alternating with the lord.<ref name=ueno92>Ueno Takafu
  23 KB (3,595 words) - 06:10, 17 July 2020
• Edo castle
  *''Japanese:''江戸城''(Edo-jou)'' ...The ''Honmaru'' has been left empty, and the ''Nishi-no-maru'' is now home to the central structures of the Imperial Palace.
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• Ayutthaya
  ...ly under the name of either the king or one of the royal princes, traveled to [[Nagasaki]] over the course of the 16th-18th centuries. Despite [[kaikin|m ...passed through Japan on their way there, but records on this subject prior to the 17th century are extremely sketchy.<ref name=ishiisiam>Ishii Yoneo, "Si
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• Dutch East India Company
  ...with whom Japan traded or otherwise interacted, for the duration of the [[Edo period]] (until the 'opening' of the country in the [[Bakumatsu period|1850 ...ry, and to defend and administer that territory as a colony; and the power to maintain and employ military force.<ref>Adam Clulow, ''The Company and the
  26 KB (4,119 words) - 05:09, 10 August 2021
• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  ...nistered by Kagoshima but still regarded as the territory of the kingdom - to be included in the kingdom's ''kokudaka'', for a grand total of 123,700 ''k ...lands]], which stretch between [[Kyushu|Kyûshû]] and Taiwan, from [[1429]] to [[1879]].
  43 KB (6,644 words) - 09:09, 30 August 2021
• Vietnam
  ...ort taking place by boat than by road.<ref>Craig Lockard, “‘The Sea Common to All’: Maritime Frontiers, Port Cities, and Chinese Traders in the Southea ...ty Press (1994), 268.</ref> Vietnam remained a loyal [[tribute|tributary]] to the Chinese court, particularly during the [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing
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• Currency
  [[File:Coins.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A ''Kan'ei tsûhô'' coin from the [[Edo period]] (date unknown, left), a replica ''Keichô koban'' (center), and a ...dern period, the heavy use of [[Chinese currency|Chinese coins]]. By the [[Edo period]], a relatively standardized system of gold and silver coinage was i
  27 KB (4,269 words) - 01:52, 18 November 2019
• Shuri castle
  ...castle sits some 70cm higher above the ground than the original, in order to protect the ruins. Gallery labels, Shuri castle.[https://www.flickr.com/pho ...rom that time, leading scholars such as Uezato to conclude that even prior to Shuri becoming the royal palace, it functioned as a ''gusuku''.<ref>Uezato,
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