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Kōchi Chōjō

Index Kōchi Chōjō

was a Ryukyuan aristocrat known for leading a movement to petition the government of Qing Dynasty China to rescue the Ryūkyū Kingdom from annexation by Imperial Japan, following the 1872 announcement by the government of Meiji Japan to do so. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: China, Empire of Japan, Fujian, Fuzhou, Government of Meiji Japan, Iejima, Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa Island, Okinawan name, Pinyin, Qing dynasty, Rin Seikō, Ryūkyū-kan, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan people, Ueekata.

  2. 19th-century Ryukyuan people

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Fujian

Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.

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Fuzhou

Fuzhou is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China.

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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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Iejima

, previously romanized in English as Ie Shima, is an island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, lying a few kilometers off the Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa Island.

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Motobu Peninsula

The is a peninsula in the Yanbaru region of Okinawa Island.

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Okinawa Island

, officially, is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan in the Kyushu region.

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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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Pinyin

Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese.

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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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Rin Seikō

was a scholar-bureaucrat and diplomat of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. Kōchi Chōjō and Rin Seikō are 19th-century Ryukyuan people.

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Ryūkyū-kan

were institutions serving as homes and bases of operations for Ryukyuan missions in early modern Fuzhou (Fujian province, China) and Kagoshima (Satsuma Domain, Japan).

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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 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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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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See also

19th-century Ryukyuan people

References

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

Also known as Kochi Chojo.