The invasion of Ryukyu was a campaign by forces of the Japanese Satsuma domain against the Ryukyu Kingdom between March and May 1609. About 100 ships carrying roughly 3,000 soldiers gathered at Yamakawa harbor on 1 March 1609 and sailed on 4 March under Kabayama Hisataka and Hirata Masumune. The people of the Amami Islands did not resist and helped the Satsuma army, the force met fighting on Tokunoshima, and on Okinawa Island Satsuma troops advanced on Shuri while the court of King Shō Nei negotiated; Shō Nei left Shuri Castle on 4 May. The war began the kingdom's status as a vassal of Satsuma, which also took back the Amami Islands, while Ryukyu kept its royal government and its tributary relationship with China until Japan annexed it in 1879 as Okinawa Prefecture.
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Commanders and Forces
Source Kabayama Hisataka (Wikipedia)
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1. Invasion of Ryukyu (Wikipedia)
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took place from March to May of 1609
Background
the Shimazu, with the permission of the newly established Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867), to invade Ryukyu in 1609, claiming it to be a punitive mission
Lead, outcome
marked the beginning of the Ryukyu Kingdom's status as a vassal state under the Satsuma domain
View the SourceKabayama Hisataka (Wikipedia)
Commanders and Forces: Kabayama Hisataka, Warrior sectionQuote, Commanders and Forces: Kabayama Hisataka, Warrior section
In 1609, Hisataka led military forces of the Shimazu clan against the Kingdom of Ryukyu.
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