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{{History of Ryukyu}}
The {{nihongo|'''Ryukyu Domain'''|琉球藩|Ryūkyū han}} was a short-lived [[Han system|___domain]] of the [[Empire of Japan]], lasting from 1872 to 1879, and simultaneously a [[Tributary system of China|tributary state]] of the [[Qing dynasty|Qing Empire]], until 1875, before being fully incorporated into Japan as the current [[Okinawa Prefecture]] and other islands at the Pacific edge of the [[East China Sea]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Japan : Ryukyuans (Okinawans) |url=https://www.refworld.org/reference/countryrep/mrgi/2018/en/37183#:~:text=After%20unification%20in%20the%2014th,and%20formally%20annexed%20the%20Ry%C5%ABky%C5%ABs. |access-date=2025-04-09 |website=Refworld |language=en}}</ref>
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.
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