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Abstract
THOMAS NELSON
Japan in the Life of Early Ryukyu
The sources detailing the history of Ryukyu between 1372 and 1609 pay
great attention to links with China. Ties to Japan, by contrast, have
either gone unrecorded or else the documents describing them have been
lost. The aim of this essay is to redress the balance by drawing on
scattered Korean and Japanese records to demonstrate that Japan both
exerted an important cultural and economic influence on Ryukyu and
dominated the northward leg of Ryukyu’s foreign trade.
Volume
32, Number 2 (Summer 2006)
© 2006 Society for Japanese Studies
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