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[[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]] attempted to sever the connections between the royal court at [[Shuri]] and the ''noro'' in the [[Amami Islands]] (brought under Kagoshima's control after [[1609]]), but ultimately relented in the face of powerful resistance. Even during this period of political division, and even despite the history of conflict between the Amamis and Shuri, ''noro'' continued to travel to Shuri to seek official appointment from the king, down into the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 26.</ref>
[[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]] attempted to sever the connections between the royal court at [[Shuri]] and the ''noro'' in the [[Amami Islands]] (brought under Kagoshima's control after [[1609]]), but ultimately relented in the face of powerful resistance. Even during this period of political division, and even despite the history of conflict between the Amamis and Shuri, ''noro'' continued to travel to Shuri to seek official appointment from the king, down into the 18th and 19th centuries.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 26.</ref>
The formal system and hierarchy of ''noro'' disappeared with the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of the kingdom]] in [[1879]]; though some still identify as ''noro'' today, particularly on [[Kudaka Island]], they are no longer appointed by any central authority or belong to any state-related or otherwise political hierarchy.<ref>Aike Rots, "Strangers in the Sacred Grove: The Changing Meanings of Okinawan Utaki," ''Religions'' 10:298 (2019), 6.</ref>
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