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Created page with "*''Japanese'': 甑島 ''(koshiki jima)'', 甑島列島 ''(koshiki jima rettô)'' The Koshiki Islands are a group of islands in Kagoshima prefecture, located just west of ..."
*''Japanese'': 甑島 ''(koshiki jima)'', 甑島列島 ''(koshiki jima rettô)''
The Koshiki Islands are a group of islands in [[Kagoshima prefecture]], located just west of the Satsuma peninsula, in the [[East China Sea]]. They consist chiefly of the three islands of Kami-Koshiki, Naka-Koshiki, and Shimo-Koshiki.
In the [[Edo period]], the Koshiki Islands were administered by officials known as ''bangashira'', recruited or appointed from among the people of the island.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 244.</ref>
Travelers were occasionally castaway on the Koshiki Islands; two famous incidents involved [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] castaways in [[1604]], and [[1790]]. In the former instance, [[Satsuma han]] officials detained the castaways for a time, at the order of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]]. In the latter instance, however, the stranded Ryukyuan officials simply procured a boat and made their way to [[Kagoshima]] on their own (or with the help of the locals).
In [[1865]], when a group of [[Satsuma students|young men from Satsuma]] sought to secretly depart Japan to study in Europe, they claimed they were traveling merely to the Koshiki Islands, thus deflecting shogunate suspicion that they were boarding a seagoing vessel at all.<ref>Plaque at Kagoshima-Chûô train station, Kagoshima City.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/21519295436/sizes/o/]</ref>
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==External Links==
*[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Koshikijima-retto/@31.7472027,129.6485726,10.71z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3515ee3698798e09:0x2b0e68a77ed95b62!8m2!3d31.7666667!4d129.8 Koshiki Islands on Google Maps]
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The Koshiki Islands are a group of islands in [[Kagoshima prefecture]], located just west of the Satsuma peninsula, in the [[East China Sea]]. They consist chiefly of the three islands of Kami-Koshiki, Naka-Koshiki, and Shimo-Koshiki.
In the [[Edo period]], the Koshiki Islands were administered by officials known as ''bangashira'', recruited or appointed from among the people of the island.<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 244.</ref>
Travelers were occasionally castaway on the Koshiki Islands; two famous incidents involved [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] castaways in [[1604]], and [[1790]]. In the former instance, [[Satsuma han]] officials detained the castaways for a time, at the order of [[Shimazu Yoshihisa]]. In the latter instance, however, the stranded Ryukyuan officials simply procured a boat and made their way to [[Kagoshima]] on their own (or with the help of the locals).
In [[1865]], when a group of [[Satsuma students|young men from Satsuma]] sought to secretly depart Japan to study in Europe, they claimed they were traveling merely to the Koshiki Islands, thus deflecting shogunate suspicion that they were boarding a seagoing vessel at all.<ref>Plaque at Kagoshima-Chûô train station, Kagoshima City.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/21519295436/sizes/o/]</ref>
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==References==
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==External Links==
*[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Koshikijima-retto/@31.7472027,129.6485726,10.71z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3515ee3698798e09:0x2b0e68a77ed95b62!8m2!3d31.7666667!4d129.8 Koshiki Islands on Google Maps]
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