The Ryukyu Kingdom (1372–1879) on Okinawa Island used various writing conventions, all of which were markedly different from spoken registers. A unique...

into the Ryukyu Kingdom (1429–1872), which continued the maritime trade and tributary relations started in 1372 with Ming China. In 1609, the Satsuma Domain...

Britain and Ireland. 27. London: 383–395. Kawamura Tadao 河村只雄 (1999) [1939]. Nanpō bunka no tankyū 南方文化の探求 (in Japanese). Writing in the Ryukyu Kingdom...

The Gusuku Period (グスク時代, Gusuku jidai) is an era in the history of the Ryukyu Islands, an island chain now part of Japan. The period corresponds to the...

Okinawa-centered kingdom before it was replaced with Okinawa Prefecture in 1879. Ryūkyū was an exonym for Okinawa Island and remained largely alien to the native...

returned to Miyako Island in the Ryukyu Islands. Because the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tributary state of Qing China as well as within the Japanese sphere of influence...

The Ryukyuan languages (琉球語派, Ryūkyū-goha, also 琉球諸語, Ryūkyū-shogo or 島言葉 in Ryukyuan, Shima kotoba, literally "Island Speech"), also Lewchewan or Luchuan...

standard spelling is the same as that in pre-spelling-reform Written Japanese: "けふ" (transliterated as kefu). Writing in the Ryukyu Kingdom Tanka (poetry) Kei...

could. In 1372, the Hongwu Emperor restricted tribute missions from Joseon and six other countries to just one every three years. The Ryukyu Kingdom was...

Okinawan, spoken in Okinawa Island. Documents in Ryukyu Kingdom were written in kanji and hiragana, derived from Japan. Although generally agreed among...

the Shuri–Naha variant is generally recognized as the de facto standard, as it had been used as the official language of the Ryukyu Kingdom since the...

record-keeping using knotted straw at the time of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. In the Southern Ryukyuan languages of the Sakishima Islands it was known as barazan...

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1237) was the legendary first king of Chūzan and a ruler of Okinawa. The official histories of the Ryukyu Kingdom claim that he was the son of the samurai...

The Ryukyuan religion (琉球信仰), Ryūkyū Shintō (琉球神道), Nirai Kanai Shinkō (ニライカナイ信仰), or Utaki Shinkō (御嶽信仰) is the indigenous belief system of the Ryukyu...

developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called te (手), "hand"; tī in Okinawan) under the influence of...

and it is known for being the birth village of the famous woman chief, San’ai Isoba. From the time of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, Yonaguni prospered as a commerce...

mentioned in the History of Yuan and was described by the Yuan dynasty traveler Wang Dayuan. Ryukyu Kingdom Describes some anatomy of the human body...

Cultural Properties of Japan - archaeological materials (Okinawa) Writing in the Ryukyu Kingdom "Cultural Properties for Future Generations". Agency for Cultural...

The Kingdom of Yemen (Arabic: المملكة اليمنية, romanized: al-Mamlakah al-Yamanīyah), officially the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen (Arabic: المملكة المتوكلية...

(牧志). In early times, kamei were written predominantly in hiragana. After the invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom by Japan's Satsuma Domain in 1609, the Japanese-style...

translated as "prime minister," from 1666 to 1673. Shō wrote the first history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Chūzan Seikan (中山世鑑, "Mirror of Chūzan"), and enacted...

[tʰɛ.dʑo.sʰʌn.ɡuk̚]), was a dynastic kingdom of Korea that existed for 505 years. It was founded by Taejo of Joseon in July 1392 and replaced by the Korean...

Ryūkyū-koku yurai-ki (琉球国由来記, Records of the Origin of the Ryūkyū Kingdom) is a chorography compiled by the government of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It was the...

Cultural Properties of Japan - historical materials (Okinawa) Writing in the Ryukyu Kingdom "Cultural Properties for Future Generations". Agency for Cultural...

for a tomo. Fragmentary sources suggest that the First Shō dynasty, who founded the Ryukyu Kingdom, used the symbol if not as their family crest. American...

aristocrat-bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom. Tasato was a younger brother of Kochinda Chōei. He was also a playwright, and known for writing kumi odori. Three plays...

The Hawaiian Kingdom, also known as the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian: Ke Aupuni Hawaiʻi [kɛ ɐwˈpuni həˈvɐjʔi]), was an archipelagic country from 1795...

1806. The borders of the Kingdom of Württemberg, as defined in 1813, lay between 47°34' and 49°35' north and 8°15' and 10°30' east. The greatest distance...

the 14th century, Urasoe Castle was the largest on the island of Okinawa. The castle now contains the remains of several kings of the Ryukyu Kingdom....