How to Pronounce Yonabaru Ryōketsu
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Feb 08, 1836 Died on 22 Dec 1893 (aged 57)
Sanshikan of Ryukyu
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About Yonabaru Ryketsu
- Yonabaru Ueekata Ryoketsu (??? ?? ??, 8 February 1836 – 22 December 1893), also known by his Chinese style name Ba Kensai (? ??), was a politician, bureaucrat and diplomat of Ryukyu Kingdom.Ryoketsu was born to an aristocrat family called Ba-uji Yonabaru Dunchi (???????).
- His father Yonabaru Ryokyo (??? ??, also known as Ba Choto ? ??), was a Sanshikan from 1859 to 1871.In 1876, Ryukyu had to break off diplomatic relations with Qing China under the pressure of Imperial Japan.
- Ikegusuku Anki led a mission to Tokyo to register a complaint.
- Yonabaru Ryoketsu was good at diplomacy and the Japanese language, so he was sent as an assistant.
- But the Shgunate ignored the mission.
- Ikegusuku Anki died in 1877, Ryoketsu succeeded him as a member of Sanshikan.
- Ryoketsu contacted envoys of Western countries and tried to get them involved, but there was little response.
- He Ruzhang (???) and Huang Zunxian were appointed the Imperial Chinese envoy and counselor, respectively, and went to Tokyo by ship in the same year.
- Ryoketsu met them secretly when their ship passed Kobe, and petitioned Qing China to rescue the Ryukyu from annexation by Japan.In 1879, Ryukyu was annexed by Japan, and later, Japan declared the creation of Okinawa Prefecture.
- King Sho Tai moved to Tokyo in the same year, Ryoketsu serving as Keishi (??) of the former king.
- The last three Sanshikan, Urasoe Chosho, Tomikawa Seikei and Yonabaru Ryoketsu, all wanted to restore the Ryukyu Domain, and they struggled for this ideal until their deaths. Ryoketsu was also the Eboshioya (????) of Sho In (Prince Ginowan) and Sho Jun (Prince Matsuyama).
