Shô Hashi relocated the capital from Urasoe to Shuri, nearer to the scholar-bureaucrat center of Kumemura, and the port of Naha, and expanded the gusuku (castle) there into a royal palace on the Chinese model. There, he worked to construct a notion of kingship based on the Chinese mode...
Immediately after claiming the throne, Yongle officially named Beijing the new capital of the empire; ruling in Nanjing after having set fire to that palace was profoundly troublesome for his efforts to build a sense of legitimacy. He was not, however, able to actually relocate the Court and ...
↑ For a brief overview of Chinese Imperial patents, see this page at the official website of the National Palace Museum, Beijing. ↑ Murakami Masakazu 村上正和, "18 seiki Pekin no gyôretsu to shukuten" 十八世紀北京の行列と祝典, in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), Egakareta gyôretsu 描かれ...
of the Meiji government, which abolished the kingdom, transforming Ryûkyû han into Okinawa Prefecture, with officials appointed from Tokyo to administer the islands[2] The former king was ordered to report to Tokyo, but feigning illness, he temporarily found shelter at Shô Ten’s palace....
Before the end of the war, British and French armies would invade Beijing, and infamously sacked the Old Summer Palace (also known as the Yuanmingyuan), stealing or destroying many great imperial treasures. Following the end of the war (if not also during it), the Ryukyuan royal court held...
The Assasination As described in the Nihongi, Soga no Iruka was called into the court ofEmpress Kogyokuduring a visit by Korean ambassadors bringing tribute. Prince Naka no Oe ordered the guards to close the doors of the palace and surrounded Soga no Iruka. Though Naka no Oe ordered the gua...
↑Ishin Shiryô Hensankai,Kazoku Ryakufu, Tokyo: Shueisha (1913), 625. ↑Roughly, "woman of the Amuro palace" or "woman of the Amuro noble lineage."
A twenty-two volume manuscript copy of theOmoro sôshi, possibly the only extant historical copy, was stolen during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. It had been kept in theNakagusuku palace[7]since the 1870s, along with a large collection of other royal objects not brought toTokyoby the ...
Aku's depression also made him avoid contact with others beings from outside his palace in which he made the giant voice recorder in his likeliness that recorded his message that said that he didn't want to meet anyone and asked them to go away. At the same time, Aku also cared less ...
In the Ming and Qing Dynasties in particular, those who passed the provincial-level imperial examinations (known as jǔrén) were able to enter the Guózǐjiàn to study for the metropolitan and palace level exams, in order to earn the jìnshì degree. A small number of students and scholars...