Ijichi Sadaka

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  • Other Names: 堀仲左衛門 (Hori Chuuzaemon), 次郎 (Jirou)
  • Japanese: 伊地知貞馨 (Ijichi Sadaka)

Ijichi Sadaka was a Shimazu clan retainer prominent in negotiations surrounding the annexation of the Ryûkyû Kingdom and its new administration under the Meiji government in the 1870s.

In 1871/12-1872/1, Ijichi accompanied Narahara Shigeru as leaders of an Imperial mission to Shuri, to discuss the administration of the Ryûkyû Islands with the heads of the royal government there.

The following year (in 1873), Ijichi compiled a history of the Ryukyus' relationship with Japan, from antiquity to the present. Entitled Ryûkyû hôhan jiryaku (琉球封藩事略), it covers both the Ryukyuan missions to Edo and the kingdom's tributary relationship with China, but subtly emphasizes Ryûkyû's relationship with "Japan," rather than with the Shimazu house or the Tokugawa shogunate, thus strengthening the Meiji government's claims to the islands. Ijichi also penned a volume called Okinawa shi (Ryûkyû shi) (沖縄志(琉球志)), published in 1877.[1]

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), 370-371.
  1. Watanabe Miki 渡辺美季, "Ryûkyû Okinawa hontô torishirabesho shoshû Shurijô no zu ni tsuite" 「『琉球沖縄本島取調書』所収「首里城ノ図」について」, Tôkyô daigaku shiryôhensanjo fuzoku gazô shiryô kaiseki sentaa tsûshin 東京大学史料編纂所附属画像史料解析センター通信 90 (Oct 2020), p19.