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{{shortShort description|1872-79 ___domain of the Japanese Empire after annexing the Ryūkyū Kingdom; now Okinawa Prefecture}}

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|status_text = [[Han system|Domain]] of [[Empire of Japan|Japan]]<br>[[Tributary system of China|Tributary state]] of [[Qing dynasty|Qing China]] {{nobold|(until 1875)}}

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{{History of Ryukyu}}

The {{nihongo|'''Ryukyu Domain'''|琉球藩|Ryūkyū han}} was a short-lived [[hanHan (administrative division)system|___domain]] of the [[Empire 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]].

When the ___domain was created in 1872, Japan's feudal [[han system]] had developed in unique ways. The ___domain was a [[politics|political]] and [[Economics|economic]] abstraction based on periodic [[cadastral]] surveys and projected agricultural yields.<ref>[[Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]] and William B. Hauser. (1987). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Hv99D510nHcC&pg=PA150 ''The Bakufu in Japanese History,'' p. 150].</ref> In other words, the ___domain was defined in terms of ''[[kokudaka]]'', not land area.<ref>Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). [https://books.google.com/books?id=T2_5_W7UFXwC&pg=PA18 ''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18].</ref> This was different from the [[feudalism]] of the West.