Yamato yokome
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The Yamato yokome was an official position within the zaiban bugyôsho, the Satsuma han office which oversaw Satsuma business in the Ryûkyû Kingdom.
The position was originally filled by a samurai official from Satsuma, but later came to be filled instead by a Ryukyuan member of the scholar-aristocracy of Naha. The Yamato yokome helped oversee ships and shipping in Naha harbor, and served the zaiban bugyô in a variety of ways. In the later period, when this position was held by a Ryukyuan official, he also oversaw the dispatching of officials to Kumejima and elsewhere in conjunction with the kingdom's reception of Chinese investiture envoys.
References
- Naha shizoku no isshô 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 3.
