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Giwan Chōho

Index Giwan Chōho

, also known more simply as, was a Ryukyuan government official and emissary; at the time of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, he was a member of the Sanshikan, the Council of Three top government ministers in the Ryūkyū Kingdom. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: Abolition of the han system, Administrative divisions of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Ainu people, Daimyo, Edo, Edo period, Emperor Meiji, Ginowan, Okinawa, Government of Meiji Japan, Home Ministry, Ie Chōchoku, Matsuda Michiyuki, Meiji Restoration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan), Okinawan name, Paiwan people, Prefectures of Japan, Qing dynasty, Ryukyu Domain, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan missions to Edo, Ryukyuan people, Sanshikan, Satsuma Domain, Shō Tai, Shogun, Shuri, Okinawa, Suzerainty, Taiwan, Tokyo, Tomikawa Seikei, Ueekata, Waka (poetry).

  2. 19th-century Ryukyuan people

Abolition of the han system

The in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, the starting year of the Meiji period.

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Administrative divisions of the Ryukyu Kingdom

The administrative divisions of the Ryukyu Kingdom were a hierarchy composed of districts, magiri, or majiri cities, villages, and islands established by the Ryukyu Kingdom throughout the Ryukyu Islands.

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Ainu people

The Ainu are an ethnic group who reside in northern Japan, including Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Khabarovsk Krai; they have occupied these areas known to them as "Ainu Mosir" (lit), since before the arrival of the modern Yamato and Russians.

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Daimyo

were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.

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Edo

Edo (江戸||"bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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Emperor Meiji

Mutsuhito (3 November 185230 July 1912), posthumously honored as Emperor Meiji, was the 122nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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Ginowan, Okinawa

(translit) is a city located in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

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Government of Meiji Japan

The was the government that was formed by politicians of the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain in the 1860s.

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Home Ministry

The was a Cabinet-level ministry established under the Meiji Constitution that managed the internal affairs of Empire of Japan from 1873 to 1947.

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Ie Chōchoku

, also known by the Chinese-style name, was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom. Giwan Chōho and Ie Chōchoku are 19th-century Ryukyuan people.

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Matsuda Michiyuki

was a Japanese bureaucrat and statesman, active in the Meiji period of Imperial Japan.

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Meiji Restoration

The Meiji Restoration (Meiji Ishin), referred to at the time as the, and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji.

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)

The is an executive department of the Government of Japan, and is responsible for the country's foreign policy and international relations.

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Okinawan name

Okinawan names (Okinawan: 名/なー, nā) today have only two components, the family names (surnames or last names) first and the given names last.

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Paiwan people

The Paiwan (Kacalisian) are an indigenous people of Taiwan.

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Prefectures of Japan

Japan is divided into 47 prefectures (todōfuken), which rank immediately below the national government and form the country's first level of jurisdiction and administrative division.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Ryukyu Domain

The was a short-lived domain of the Empire of Japan, lasting from 1872 to 1879, before becoming the current Okinawa Prefecture and other islands at the Pacific edge of the East China Sea.

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Ryukyu Kingdom

The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879.

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Ryukyuan missions to Edo

Over the course of Japan's Edo period, the Ryūkyū Kingdom sent eighteen, the capital of Tokugawa Japan.

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Ryukyuan people

The Ryukyuan people (Ruuchuu minzuku or label, Ryūkyū minzoku, also Okinawans, Uchinaanchu, Lewchewan or Loochooan) are a Japonic-speaking East Asian ethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.

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Sanshikan

The Sanshikan (三司官 sanshikwan), or Council of Three, was a government body of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, which originally developed out of a council of regents.

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Satsuma Domain

The, briefly known as the, was a domain (han) of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871.

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Shō Tai

was the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom (8 June 1848 – 10 October 1872) and the head of the Ryukyu Domain (10 October 1872 – 27 March 1879). Giwan Chōho and Shō Tai are people from Naha.

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Shogun

Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.

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Shuri, Okinawa

is a district of the city of Naha, Okinawa, Japan.

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Suzerainty

Suzerainty includes the rights and obligations of a person, state, or other polity which controls the foreign policy and relations of a tributary state but allows the tributary state internal autonomy.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tomikawa Seikei

, also known by his Chinese style name, was a politician and bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. Giwan Chōho and Tomikawa Seikei are 19th-century Ryukyuan people, Sanshikan and Ueekata.

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Ueekata

, in the Okinawan language, was the highest rank in the yukatchu aristocracy of the former Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan), though it was still below the aji nobility.

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Waka (poetry)

is a type of poetry in classical Japanese literature.

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See also

19th-century Ryukyuan people

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giwan_Chōho

Also known as Giwan Choho.