, also known by his Chinese style name , was a politician and bureaucrat of
Ryukyu Kingdom
The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a Tributary system of China, tributary state of Ming dynasty, imperial Ming China by the King of Ryukyu, Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island t ...
.
Anki was born to an aristocrat family called
Mō-uji Ikegusuku Dunchi (). He was the 15th head of Ikegusuku Dunchi, and his father
Ikegusuku Anyū (, also known as Mō Zōkō ), was a ''Sanshikan'' from 1848 to 1862.
Anki was selected as a member of the ''
Sanshikan
The ''Sanshikan'' ( ), or Council of Three, was a government body of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, which originally developed out of a council of regents.
It emerged in 1556, when the young Shō Gen, who was speech disorder, mute, ascended to the throne ...
'' in 1873. In 1876, Ryukyu had to break off diplomatic relations with
Qing China
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under the pressure of
Imperial Japan
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. Anki led a mission to
Tokyo
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to complaint with it (
Yonabaru Ryōketsu
, also known by his Chinese style name , was a politician, bureaucrat and diplomat of Ryukyu Kingdom.
Ryōketsu was born to an aristocrat family called Ba-uji Yonabaru Dunchi (). His father Yonabaru Ryōkyō (, also known as Ba Chōtō ), was a ...
,
Kōchi Chōjō
was a Ryukyuan aristocrat known for leading a movement to petition the government of Qing Dynasty China to rescue the Ryūkyū Kingdom from annexation by Imperial Japan, following the 1872 announcement by the government of Meiji Japan to do so.
...
,
Kyan Chōfu,
Uchima Chōchoku and
Ishatō Seiei as assistant), but Japanese ignored.
In the year 1877, Anki became seriously ill. He sent Kōchi Chōjō back to Ryukyu, suggested that Ryukyu should seek for China's help. Not long after he died in Tokyo, his body was returned to Shuri.
References
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1829 births
1877 deaths
19th-century Ryukyuan people
Ueekata
Sanshikan