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Ōzato Chōkyō
also known by his Chinese style name , was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom.Ōzato Chōkyō " ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Prince Ōzato was the third son of King Shō Kō, and was a half-brother of King Shō Iku. He was given Ōzato ''magiri'' (part of modern Nanjō), and established a new royal family: ''Ōzato Udun'' ().Rizō Takeuchi, Rizō, Takeuchi. (1992). ''Okinawa-ken seishi kakei daijiten'' (). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten. He served as ''sessei'' from 1852 to 1861. In 1859, Makishi Chōchū, Onga Chōkō, Oroku Ryōchū and Prince Tamagawa Chōtatsu were involved in illegal matter (Makishi Onga Incident), and Prince Ie Chōchoku was appointed as judge to interrogate them. Prince Ōzato supported Prince Ie to convict them. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessei
was the highest government post of the Ryūkyū Kingdom below the king; the ''sessei'' served the function of royal or national advisor. In the Ryukyuan languages, Ryukyuan language at the time, the pronunciation was closer to ''shisshii'', and has only changed relatively recently. Though the same Chinese characters which compose the Okinawan language, modern Okinawan word ''sessei'' are read as ''sesshō'' in Japanese language, Japanese, the position is not quite the same, and the Ryukyuan post is not derived from the Japanese model or system. The ''sessei'' worked alongside the king and the ''Sanshikan'' (Council of Three) to draft and enact laws, though the king gradually became more and more of a figurehead over the course of the period when Ryūkyū was a subsidiary of the Japanese han (country subdivision), feudal domain of Satsuma Domain, Satsuma (1609–1870s). Like most Ryukyuan government officials at the time, most ''sessei'' were appointed from the elite class of ''yuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onga Chōkō
Onga may refer to: *Onga District, Fukuoka, a district of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan ** Onga, Fukuoka, a town in that district *Onga, Hungary Onga is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary. 10 km to Miskolc Miskolc ( , ; ; Czech language, Czech and ; ; ; ) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 as of 1 January ..., a town * Onga, Gabon, in the department of Djoue See also * * Oonga (other) * Ounga (other) * Ongaonga (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princes Of Ryūkyū
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word ''prince'', from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". In a related sense, now not commonly used, all more or less sovereign rulers over a state, including kings, were "princes" in the language of international politics. They normally had another title, for example king or duke. Many of these were Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. Historical background The Latin word (older Latin *prīsmo-kaps, ), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the ''princeps senatus''. Emperor Augustus established the forma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 Births
This year was known as the '' Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. Events January–March * January 6 – (December 25, 1815 on the Russian Julian calendar): Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow. * January 9 – **Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp, at Hebburn Colliery in northeast England; **Ludwig van Beethoven wins the custody battle for his nephew Karl. * January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. * February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg. * February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa ''The Barber of Sevill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sessei
was the highest government post of the Ryūkyū Kingdom below the king; the ''sessei'' served the function of royal or national advisor. In the Ryukyuan languages, Ryukyuan language at the time, the pronunciation was closer to ''shisshii'', and has only changed relatively recently. Though the same Chinese characters which compose the Okinawan language, modern Okinawan word ''sessei'' are read as ''sesshō'' in Japanese language, Japanese, the position is not quite the same, and the Ryukyuan post is not derived from the Japanese model or system. The ''sessei'' worked alongside the king and the ''Sanshikan'' (Council of Three) to draft and enact laws, though the king gradually became more and more of a figurehead over the course of the period when Ryūkyū was a subsidiary of the Japanese han (country subdivision), feudal domain of Satsuma Domain, Satsuma (1609–1870s). Like most Ryukyuan government officials at the time, most ''sessei'' were appointed from the elite class of ''yuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chūzan Seifu
was an official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom compiled between 1697 and 1701 by a group of scholar-officials led by Sai Taku. It was a continuation of the '' Chūzan Seikan''. It is composed of 19 volumes, one of which is devoted to correspondence between the kingdom and the Satsuma Domain. It also describes the founding of the Chinese community in Okinawa after the arrival of "thirty-six families" of "people from Min" after permission was granted by Emperor Hongwu. Later, it was rewritten into Classical Chinese Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from . For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary ... by Sai Taku's famous son Sai On in 1724, and expanded each year until 1876. See also * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - writings (Okinawa) * Chūzan Seikan * Kyūyō References 1701 non-fiction books 18th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ie Chōchoku
, also known by the Chinese-style name , was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom. Sometimes he was called Prince Ie () for short. Prince Ie was the fifth son of King Shō Kō. He served as ''sessei'' from 1872 to 1875. After Ryukyu was annexed by Japan in 1879, Prince Ie was incorporated into the newly established ''kazoku The was the hereditary peerage of the Empire of Japan, which existed between 1869 and 1947. It was formed by merging the feudal lords (''Daimyo, daimyō'') and court nobles (''kuge'') into one system modelled after the British peerage. Distin ...'' peerage; and in 1890, he was granted the title of . 1818 births 1896 deaths Princes of Ryūkyū Sessei 19th-century Ryukyuan people People of the Meiji era People from Naha Kazoku {{RyukyuKingdom-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamagawa Chōtatsu
, also known by his Chinese style name , was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom.Tamagawa Chōtatsu " ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Prince Tamagawa was the seventh son of King . He was also a half-brother of King , Prince and Prince . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oroku Ryōchū
, also known by the Chinese-style name , was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.Oroku Ryōchū . ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Ryōchū was born to an aristocrat family called Ba-uji Oroku Dunchi (). He was the 12th head of Oroku Dunchi, and his father , was a ''Sanshikan'' during 's reign. Oroku Ryōchū was selected as a member of '' |
Makishi Chōchū
was a scholar-bureaucrat and diplomat of Ryūkyū Kingdom. He was also known as , and his Chinese style name, . Life Makishi was born in Shuri, Okinawa, Shuri, the capital of Ryūkyū. He studied in Kokugaku (Ryukyu), Kokugaku (国学 the Royal Academy of Ryūkyū) in his early years. In 1838, he traveled to Qing Dynasty, China to study, and stayed in Beijing for several years. When he came back to Ryūkyū, he learned English from Aniya Seiho (安仁屋 政輔). He was then appointed Ikoku Tsūji (異国通詞, the diplomat towards Western countries) in 1844. References *『沖縄大百科事典』、沖縄タイムス、1983年 1818 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Ryukyuan people Torture victims 1860s deaths {{diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
