Ryūkyū-kan
Sign in to savethumb|right|300px|Ryūkyū-kan in Fuzhou, China '''''' were institutions serving as homes and bases of operations for Ryukyuan missions in early modern Fuzhou (Fujian province, China) and Kagoshima (Satsuma Domain, Japan).
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thumb|right|300px|Ryūkyū-kan in Fuzhou, China '''' were institutions serving as homes and bases of operations for Ryukyuan missions in early modern Fuzhou (Fujian province, China) and Kagoshima (Satsuma Domain, Japan).
==Fuzhou== The Chinese Ryūkyū-kan (Liúqiú guǎn in Mandarin Chinese pinyin) is located in the city of Fuzhou. Along with the nearby Kaido-kan () and Kokushi-kan'' (), it housed visiting dignitaries and scholars en route between Ryukyu and the Chinese capital of Nanjing or Beijing. In addition to officials sent by the kingdom to engage in formal diplomatic matters, Ryukyu regularly sent a small number of students to study a variety of traditional Chinese subjects in the capital, primarily in preparation for careers in the kingdom's government and bureaucracy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryūkyū-kan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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