...e:Choshu-gozabune.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Members of a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] aboard the ''gozabune'' of the lord of [[Choshu han|Chôshû domain]], as
...ained designated families of shipwrights (''[[goyo shonin|goyô shônin]]'') to build and maintain their vessels.
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...urney to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] as an [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture envoy]], and for his writings on that journey.
...n also included 600 additional people, including cartographers who set out to map the archipelago.<ref>Schottenhammer, Angela. "The East Asian maritime w
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...y]] official who served as vice-envoy on a [[Chinese investiture mission]] to the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] led by [[Zhao Wenkai]] in [[1800]].
...apan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
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...gly emphasize Ryûkyû's connections to China, while downplaying connections to Japan.
...apan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>
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...etry: China's Place in Asia'' (NUS Press, 2009), 13-14. </ref> It was used to authorize official documents, both within the kingdom, and in communication
...certain other kingdoms, it was made of gilded silver. This was in contrast to the seals bestowed upon the kings of [[Joseon]] dynasty Korea and the [[Mur
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...Edo in accordance with his ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' obligations. To maintain five mansions in the city was exceptional; most smaller domains ma
...ka-yashiki'' ("middle mansion").<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 103.</r
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[[Image:Teijunsoku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A monument to Tei Junsoku on the grounds of the [[Shiseibyo|Confucian temple]] in [[Kumem
...o Edo" 「琉球人行列と江戸」, in ''Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen'' 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編、Research Cen
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...on, with the pond, bridge, and outer gate area seen above off of the photo to the right.]]
...rgest Buddhist temple in the islands.<ref>Hirakawa Nobuyuki, "A History of Ryukyuan Painting," ''Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and
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[[File:Shinkosen.JPG|right|thumb|320px|A model of a Ryukyuan [[tribute]] ship, on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]
...e Ryukyuan ships were not identical to Chinese styles, and bore distinctly Ryukyuan features which set them apart.
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...h China. However, combined with the costs of receiving [[Chinese embassies to Korea]], the relationship was profoundly expensive for the Korean court, an
...own as ''ch'ŏnch'u'' (千秋). Towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, Korea came to send instead only one annual mission, at the time of the winter solstice, a
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...unzhi Emperor was the third emperor of the [[Qing Dynasty]], and the first to rule from [[Beijing]], with all of China under his dominion.
...and other rebels as well as [[Ming loyalists|Ming pretenders]] who sought to restore the [[Ming Dynasty]]. Dorgon also put into place many of the struct
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...t was revived beginning in the 1970s. Following the restoration of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty in 1972, ''kumi odori'' was named an "important intang
''Kumi odori'' was first performed on 1719/9/9, at a banquet for the Chinese envoys on the occasion of the [[investiture]] of King [[Sho Kei|Shô Kei]]. It was
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...erating the town's ''[[honjin]]'' (official lodging for shogunal & foreign envoys, ''daimyô'', and other elite guests). The family's records, some 26 volume
..., he began an enterprise brewing a medicinal liquor; this would later come to be called ''homeishu''.
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...]]'' and other officials and elites regularly stopped at Kamagari in the [[Edo period]]. It was an officially designated ''[[kaieki]]'' (maritime post-sta
...honjin]]'' inn in the main central port of Kamagari.<ref>Peter Shapinsky, “Envoys and Escorts: Representation and Performance among Koxinga’s Japanese Pira
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...[Tsushima han]] and Joseon Korea. Among the stipulations are that Japanese envoys do not travel deeper into Korea beyond [[Pusan]].
...he senior [[Shimazu clan]] retainers meet and choose [[Kabayama Hisataka]] to lead the invasion. The invasion forces leave [[Kagoshima]] for [[Yamakawa]]
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...<ref>Mouri Kazuo (2016), “The concept of ‘cultural landscapes’ in relation to the historic port town of Tomo,” in Matsuda, Akira and Mengoni, Luisa Ele
...戸上りと御手洗, Shiomachi kankô kôryû Center 潮待ち館観光交流センター (2001), 3.</ref> Korean envoys visiting Tomo ten years later (in [[1617]]) wrote that Tomo was even greate
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...Year's and [[Mid-Autumn Festival]]; enthronement and [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture]] ceremonies; and the like.
...14 (2013), 58-59.</ref><ref>Chia-Ying Yeh, "The Revival and Restoration of Ryukyuan Court Music, Uzagaku: Classification and Performance Techniques, Language U
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...ly not permitted to enter within the borders of the domain for much of the Edo period, during Shigehide's reign this was relaxed.
...accompanied a [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]], and was elevated in court rank to Upper Junior Fourth Rank. This was the only such mission he escorted as act
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[[Image:Ryukyu-dragon-platter.jpg|right|thumb|320px|An example of Ryukyuan red lacquer platters, with mother-of-pearl inlay dragon design.]]
...the styles and techniques employed in China, Korea, Japan, and elsewhere, Ryukyuan lacquerware followed its own unique historical trajectory, resulting in uni
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...Governor of [[Okinawa prefecture]], serving in that position from [[1892]] to [[1908]]. Earlier in his life, he was a high-ranking retainer in the servic
===Edo Period===
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...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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[[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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[[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
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...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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...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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...] ''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
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...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
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...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
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[[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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...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).
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...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
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...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
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*''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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...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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...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
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...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]].
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...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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[[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
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...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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