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[[File:Ryukyu map.jpg|thumb|right|Ryūkyū Domain included most of the Ryūkyū Islands.]]

The {{nihongo|'''RyūkyūRyukyu Domain'''|琉球藩|Ryūkyū han}} was a briefly-lived [[han (administrative division)|___domain]] of Japan in the area of the current [[Okinawa Prefecture]] and other islands{{fact|date=May 2013}} at the Pacific edge of the [[East China Sea]]. It existed from 1872 to 1879, whereupon it became [[Okinawa Prefecture]].

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). [http://books.google.com/books?id=Hv99D510nHcC&pg=PA150&dq= ''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). [http://books.google.com/books?id=T2_5_W7UFXwC&pg=PA18&dq= ''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18].</ref> This was different than the [[feudalism]] of the West.