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*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 大屋子 ''(ooyako / ufuyaku)''
*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 大屋子 ''(ooyako / ufuyaku)'', 大屋子もい ''(ooyakomoi / ufuyakumui)''
''Ôyako'', or ''ufuyaku'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], was a title held by various officials in the [[government of the Ryukyu Kingdom|government of the Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Often functioning in a deputy role, ''ôyako'' included, among others:
''Ôyako'', or ''ufuyaku'' in [[Okinawan language|Okinawan]], was a title held by various officials in the [[government of the Ryukyu Kingdom|government of the Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Often functioning in a deputy role, ''ôyako'' included, among others:
*Two ''[[shinoboseza]] ôyako'', who headed an office overseeing goods to be transported to [[Kagoshima]]
*Two ''[[shinoboseza]] ôyako'', who headed an office overseeing goods to be transported to [[Kagoshima]]
*''[[Shuri oyako|Shuri ôyako]]'', who served as regional administrators, including the ''Ô-Shuri ôyako'' (O: ''Ufu-sui ufuyaku''), who oversaw matters in the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]].
*''[[Shuri oyako|Shuri ôyako]]'', who served as regional administrators, including the ''Ô-Shuri ôyako'' (O: ''Ufu-sui ufuyaku''), who oversaw matters in the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]].
Possibly related to or derived from the term ''ôyaku'' 大役 (O: ''ufuyaku'') meaning simply a "great office," the term may have originally had a more generic and less specific denotation. Some have suggested the term may have also been related to the Ryukyuan court title ''[[peechin]]''; the [[kanji|characters]] used to write the latter title (親雲上) do not normally carry any pronunciation (reading) resembling ''peechin'' but rather would separately be pronounced ''uya'', ''kumu'', and ''uii'' in Okinawan, suggesting a close relationship to the former title.<ref>Andreas Quast, Okinawan Samurai: Instructions of a Royal Official to his Only Son, Baden-Württemberg, Germany: Andreas Quast (self-published)(2018), 171-172.</ref>
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
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