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• Eugene Van Reed
  ...e Miller Van Reed was the first consul general representing the Kingdom of Hawaii in Japan, serving in that post from [[1866]] until [[1873]]. ...waii, and the United States, resulting in official Japanese immigration to Hawaii not beginning until [[1885]], after lengthy negotiations.
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• Order of Kamehameha I
  ...[[Kalakaua|Kalākaua]] in the 1870s-80s, and named after the founder of the kingdom. ...ip around the World as Recorded in His Personal Diary", ''Hawaiian Journal of History'' 10 (1976), 62.
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• Nakasone Shozan
  ...e Shôzan was a court painter in the service of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. ...ms and Manners of Okinawa" (''Okinawa fûzoku no zu'') in the University of Hawaii collection.
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• Akamine Mamoru
  ...ern [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and a professor at the [[University of the Ryukyus]]. ...uey (ed.), ''The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia'', University of Hawaii Press (2017).
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• Ando Taro
  ...Robert Walker Irwin]] in Tokyo earlier that year, to be formally signed in Hawaii. ...nity in other respects. He was particularly disheartened by the prevalence of gambling and prostitution by Japanese in the islands.
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• Order of Kalakaua
  ...he Order of Kalākaua granted to [[Nagasaki Seigo]] in [[1881]]. Collection of the Bishop Museum.]] ...[[David Kalakaua|David Kalākaua]], second-to-last reigning monarch of the kingdom.
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• Kyuyo
  ...Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. It was compiled by [[Tei Heitetsu]] and a group of other Ryukyuan Confucian scholar-officials c. [[1743]] to [[1745]]. *Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 3.
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• Moshikuchiho
  ...ikan]]'', it formed the highest administrative and legislative body in the kingdom, known as the ''[[hyojoju|hyôjôju]]'' or the ''wii-nu-uza''. ...so served among the [[Council of Fifteen]]. The ministry oversaw a variety of matters relating to law enforcement and justice, palace affairs, harbor mai
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• Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh
  Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh served as the United States of America's Resident Minister in Japan from [[1866]] to [[1869]]. ...en Japan and the [[Kingdom of Hawaii|Kingdom of Hawai'i]] on behalf of the kingdom.
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• Tripitaka
  ...sing some 80,000 woodblocks, it is considered the most complete collection of Mayahana Buddhist scriptures ever compiled.<ref>Gallery labels, Royal Ontar ...the 1450s or 1460s.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 130-131.</ref>
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• Hyojoju
  ...uey (ed.), ''The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia'', University of Hawaii Press (2017), 81.</ref> ...d with the [[Council of Fifteen]] - the heads of the major branches of the kingdom's government, or provided approval to the Fifteen to take action. Occasiona
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• Tameharu
  ...yako'') in [[1506]] at the age of 23, and later died on Okinawa at the age of 61. ...sed there; Tamemitsu later returned to Amami to become ''[[oyako|ôyako]]'' of Higa (Setouchi Higashi) district.
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• Tameaki
  ...r of noble rank, he returned to Amami and later became ''[[oyako|ôyako]]'' of Kasari district. *Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 180.
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• John Kapena
  ...s titles, honors, and genealogical qualifications as the rightful occupant of the Hawaiian throne. *Stacy Kamehiro, ''The Arts of Kingship'', University of Hawaii Press (2009), 35-36.
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• Shu Kokushun
  ...or Zhōu Guójùn, was a [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan]] [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-aristocrat]] who traveled to [[Fuzhou]] in the 1660s to stud ...uey (ed.), ''The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia'', University of Hawaii Press (2017), 90.
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• Fifteen Injunctions
  ...1611]]/9/19, following the [[1609]] [[invasion of Ryukyu|invasion]] of his kingdom by forces from [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]]. ...se bearing ''go-hangyô'' licenses issued by Kagoshima authorities; and the kingdom was forbidden from engaging in any additional independent trade.
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• Sho Kohaku
  ...ô Gen]] of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], and eldest brother of Shô Gen's successor, [[Sho Ei|Shô Ei]]. Kôhaku never acceded to the thro *Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 144.
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• Jireisho
  ...scholar-aristocrat [[Sho Yushi|Shô Yûshi]] to the position of Mekaru ôyako of [[Iheya Island]]]] ...fficial documents issued by the royal court of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] appointing individuals to government posts. ''Jireisho'' were used both t
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• Order of the Chrysanthemum
  The Order of the Chrysanthemum was the highest Order the Emperor could bestow. A new higher level of the Order was established on [[1888]]/1/4, the Order of the Chrysanthemum with Chain.
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• Ryukyuan royal seal
  ...d in ''Ryûkyû kokuô sappô no zu'', handscroll, date unknown, University of Hawaii Collection.]] ...13-14. </ref> It was used to authorize official documents, both within the kingdom, and in communications with foreign courts.
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