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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] |
Ryukyu Kingdom
The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a Tributary system of China, tributary state of Ming dynasty, imperial Ming China by the King of Ryukyu, Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island to end the Sanzan period, and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands and Sakishima Islands. The Ryukyu Kingdom played a central role in the maritime history, maritime trade networks of medieval East Asia and Southeast Asia despite its small size. The Ryukyu Kingdom became a vassal state of the Satsuma Domain of Japan after the invasion of Ryukyu in 1609 but retained ''de jure'' independence until it was transformed into the Ryukyu Domain by the Empire of Japan in 1872. The Ryukyu Kingdom was Ryukyu Disposition, formally annexed and dissolved by Japan in 1879 to form Okinawa Prefecture, and the Ryukyuan monarchy was integrated into the new Kazoku, Japanese nobility. History Origins of the Kingdom In the 14th century small domains s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nomura Chōgi
Nomura (written: 野村 "field village" or 埜村 "wilderness village") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * , Japanese volleyball player * , Japanese-American baseball agent * , Japanese voice actor, including in the manga series ''Living for the Day After Tomorrow'' * , Japanese baseball player and coach * , Japanese baseball player and manager * , Japanese D1 Grand Prix Driver * , Japanese voice actor * Kenjiro Nomura (other), multiple people * , Japanese admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy and the ambassador to the United States until the attack on Pearl Harbor * , pen-name of Japanese writer Osakazu Nomura, a novelist and music critic in Showa period Japan * , Japanese writer, actor, radio personality, book editor, interior designer, creative director, and DJ * , Japanese actress * Mary Nomura (born 1925), Japanese-American singer, "the songbird of Manzanar" * , Japanese-American biochemist who made seminal contributions in the field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1862 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom annexes Lagos Island, in modern-day Nigeria. * January 6 – Second French intervention in Mexico, French intervention in Mexico: Second French Empire, French, Spanish and British forces arrive in Veracruz, Mexico. * January 16 – Hartley Colliery disaster in north-east England: 204 men are trapped and die underground when the only shaft becomes blocked. * January 30 – American Civil War: The first U.S. ironclad warship, , is launched in Brooklyn. * January 31 – Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an eighteen-inch telescope at Northwestern University in Illinois. February * February 1 – American Civil War: Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the ''Atlantic Monthly''. * February 2 – The Dun Mountain Railway, first railway is opened in New Zealand, by the Dun Mountain Copper Mining Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 Births
Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly. * January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining novelist Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher, Archibald Constable, also fails. * January 18 – In India, the Siege of Bharatpur ends in British victory as Lord Combermere and Michael Childers defeat the princely state of Bharatpur, now part of the Indian state of Rajasthan. * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford as the first major suspension bridge in world history, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. * February 6 – James Fenimore Cooper's novel ''The Last of the Mohicans'' is first printed, by a publisher in Philadelphia. * February 8 – Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamagawa Chōjō
may refer to: Places *Tamagawa, Ehime, a former town in Ehime Prefecture that is now part of the city of Imabari, Japan *Tamakawa, Fukushima, a village in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan *Tamagawa, Saitama, a village in Saitama Prefecture, Japan *Tamagawa, Yamaguchi, a town in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan *Tama River (in Japanese, 多摩川 Tamagawa) in and near Tokyo, Japan * Tamagawa, Akita, location of Japan's highest flow rate hot spring, the Tamagawa Hot Spring, in Akita Prefecture, Japan Other uses *Tamagawa (surname) *Tamagawa Station (other) *Tamagawa Line (other) The Tamagawa Line may refer to either of the following railway and tramway lines in Tokyo, Japan: * Tamagawa Line operated by Seibu Railway * Tamagawa Line (tramway) formerly operated by Tokyu Corporation, a surviving branch of which is the Tōky� ... * 13207 Tamagawa, main-belt asteroid {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsuhako Seisei
, also known by the Chinese-style name , was a politician and bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom. Tsuhako was born in Shuri, Okinawa, Shuri. In 1840, he traveled to Qing China to study, and remained at the Guozijian, Imperial Academy in Beijing for eight years. Upon returning to Ryukyu, he received the title ''Kokushi'' () which was the instructor of King Shō Tai. In 1874, Tsuhako was sent by the king on an embassy to Japan. He was shocked at the great change during Meiji Restoration. After he came back to Ryukyu, he suggested that Ryukyu should be annexed by Japan because it was beneficial. His proposition was under serious attack. The former ''Sanshikan'' Kamegawa Seibu regarded him as a traitor. References People from the Ryukyu Kingdom Ueekata 1816 births 1877 deaths {{Japan-politician-stub ... [...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 '' |
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] |
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] |
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] |
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and List of islands of Japan, thousands of smaller islands, covering . Japan has a population of over 123 million as of 2025, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh-most populous country. The capital of Japan and List of cities in Japan, its largest city is Tokyo; the Greater Tokyo Area is the List of largest cities, largest metropolitan area in the world, with more than 37 million inhabitants as of 2024. Japan is divided into 47 Prefectures of Japan, administrative prefectures and List of regions of Japan, eight traditional regions. About three-quarters of Geography of Japan, the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
