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[[File:Ryukyu map.jpg|thumb|right|Ryūkyū Domain included the southern-half of the Ryūkyū Islands.]]
The {{nihongo|'''Ryukyu Domain'''|琉球藩|Ryūkyū han}} was a short-lived [[han (administrative division)|___domain]] of Japan in the area of the current [[Okinawa Prefecture]] and other islands{{factcitation needed|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 from the [[feudalism]] of the West.
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* [[George H. Kerr|Kerr, George H.]] (1958). ''Okinawa: the History of an Island People.'' Rutland, Vermont: Charles Tuttle Co. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/okinawa-the-history-of-an-island-people/oclc/722356?referer=br&ht=edition OCLC 722356]
* ___________. (1953). ''Ryukyu Kingdom and Province before 1945.'' Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/ryukyu-kingdom-and-province-before-1945/oclc/5455582 OCLC 5455582]
* [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [http://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&client=firefox-a ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
 
 
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