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{{Infobox former subdivision
[[File:Ryukyu map.jpg|thumb|right|Ryukyu Domain included the southern-half of the Ryukyu Islands.]]▼
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|native_name = 琉球藩
|conventional_long_name = Ryūkyū Domain
|common_name = Ryūkyū Domain
|subdivision = [[Han system|Han]]
|nation =
|status_text = [[Han system|Domain]] of [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]<br>[[Tributary state]] of [[Qing dynasty|Qing China]] {{nobold|(until 1875)}}
|government_type = Monarchy
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|capital = [[Shuri Castle]]
|coordinates =
|political_subdiv = <!-- Accepts wikilinks -->
|today = [[Okinawa Prefecture]]
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|p1 = Ryukyu Kingdom
|flag_p1 = Hidari mitsudomoe.svg
|s1 = Okinawa Prefecture
|flag_s1 =
|year_start = 1872
|year_end = 1879
|event_start =
|date_start =
|event_end = <!-- Default: "Disestablished" -->
|date_end = <!-- Optional: Date of disestablishment -->
|event1 =
|date_event1 =
|event2 =
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|event3 =
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|event4 =
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|event5 =
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|life_span =
|title_leader = Domain head
|leader1 = [[Shō Tai]]
|year_leader1 = 1872-1879
|era = Meiji period
|event_pre = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place before before "event_start" -->
|date_pre =
|event_post = <!-- Optional: A crucial event that took place before after "event_end" -->
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|image_flag = Hidari mitsudomoe.svg
|image_border = <!-- Default: "border"; for non-rectangular flag, type "no" -->
|flag_type = [[Mon (emblem)|''Mon'']] of the [[Second Shō clan]]
|flag = <!-- Link target under flag image. Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}} -->
|image_coat = Ryukyu-han seal.png
|symbol_type = Official seal
|symbol = <!-- Link target under symbol image. Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}} -->
|image_map = Ryukyu map.jpg
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|stat_year1 = <!-- year of the statistic, specify either area, population or both, numbered 1–5 -->
|stat_area1 = <!-- area in square kilometres (w/o commas or spaces), area in square miles is calculated -->
|stat_pop1 = <!-- population (w/o commas or spaces), population density is calculated if area is also given -->
|footnotes = <!-- Accepts wikilinks -->
}}
The {{nihongo|'''Ryukyu Domain'''|琉球藩|Ryūkyū han}} was a short-lived [[han (administrative division)|___domain]] of Japan, lasting from 1872 to 1879, before becoming the current [[Okinawa Prefecture]] and other islands{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} at the Pacific edge of the [[East China Sea]].
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==History==
In 1609, the [[invasion of Ryukyu]] caused a change in the relationship of the island nation and Japan.<ref>[[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]]. (2005). "Ryukyu Islands" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 801|page=801}}; Fassbender, Bardo ''et al.'' (2012). [https://books.google.com/books?id=PI9nw2tQu4IC&pg=PA483&dq=province+of+ryukyu&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FxBLUZHrEIXH4APPrYD4Bg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=province%20of%20ryukyu&f=false ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law,'' p. 483]; excerpt, "The status of Ryukyu is ambiguous when looked at from the perspective of modern European international law, although there appears to have been no serious issues concerning the status of Ryukyu at that time."</ref> After 1609, the Ryukyuan kings were forced to be [[vassal]]s of the [[Shimazu clan]] of [[Satsuma Province|Satsuma]] and the islands were occasionally viewed as a [[Provinces of Japan|province of Japan]].<ref>Toby, Ronald P. (1991). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2hK7tczn2QoC&pg=PA46&dq= ''State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia and the development of the Tokugawa bakufu,'' pp. 45-46], citing manuscripts at the [[Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo]]; excerpt, "Ieyasu granted the Shimazu clan the right to "rule" over Ryukyu ... [and] contemporary Japanese even referred to the Shimazu clan as 'lords of four provinces', which could only mean that they were including the Ryukyuan kingdom in their calculations. However, this does not mean that Ryukyu ceased to be a foreign country or that relations between Naha and Edo ceased thereby to be foreign relations."</ref> At the same time, the kingdom and its rulers remained carefully independent, and also paid tribute to China.<ref>Smits, Gregory. (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=37LxVhgIbJkC&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought and Politics,'' p. 28].</ref>
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