Yukatchu (ユカッチュ, 良人), also known as Samuree (サムレー), were the aristocracy of the Ryukyu Kingdom. The scholar-bureaucrats of classical Chinese studies living...
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situation occurred in the Ryūkyū Kingdom with the scholarly class of yukatchu, but yukatchu status was hereditary and could be bought from the government as...
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Pekumi (親雲上, Pēkumi), historically 大やこもい Opoyakomoi, was a rank among the Yukatchu class of the former Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan), above the...
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rebellion successfully. All of them received ueekata, the highest rank in the yukatchu aristocracy of Ryukyu. In the spring of 1609, Satsuma invaded Ryukyu and...
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to form an important and aristocratic class of scholar-bureaucrats, the yukatchu, who dominated the royal bureaucracy, and served as government officials...
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agricultural. The area was, however, used as a retreat for members of the Yukatchu artistocratic class of the Ryukyu Kingdom; consequently, the area was strongly...
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it successfully. All of them received ueekata, the highest rank in the yukatchu aristocracy of Ryukyu. Satsuma invaded Ryukyu in the spring of 1609. When...
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officials at the time, most sessei were appointed from the elite class of yukatchu, scholars of Chinese subjects from the town of Kumemura. According to the...
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Ueekata (親方), in the Okinawan language, was the highest rank in the yukatchu aristocracy of the former Ryukyu Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa, Japan), though...
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contacts with China. It may be worth noting that in domestic affairs Ryūkyū's Yukatchu used two- or three-character toponyms as their family names (kamei), which...
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as Kin Ōku 金 応煦). All of them received ueekata, the highest rank in the yukatchu aristocracy of Ryukyu. Ming China sent a mission for the investiture of...
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