{"id":60,"date":"2007-06-19T07:04:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-06-19T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T07:04:56","slug":"okinawa-historyworld-heritage-series-d-satto-and-bunei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/research\/history\/okinawa-historyworld-heritage-series-d-satto-and-bunei","title":{"rendered":"Okinawa History\/World Heritage Series d – Satto and Bunei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kings Satto and Bunei<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Satto, at age 29 in 1350, accepted the will of the people, and became king. <\/span>In 1372, King Satto sent his brother Taiki to <\/span>China<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, beginning a lucrative tributary relationship with the Ming emperor.<\/span>
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<\/span>Trade with <\/span>Korea<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> and the European powers soon followed. <\/span>In 1389, he sent the very first group of exchange students to <\/span>China<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>’s premier educational institution, Kokushikan.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Wanting to benefit from the vast technical and cultural wealth of knowledge that the Chinese possessed, King Satto made a formal request the Chinese emperor for advisers. <\/span>To answer the call of the Ryukyus, the Emperor sent what would come to be known as the 36 families. <\/span>These specialists settled in the <\/span>village<\/span><\/st1:placetype> of <\/span>Kume<\/span><\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>; at the time, an island west of Mawashi town(current <\/span>Naha<\/span><\/st1:place><\/st1:city>) separated by the Kumoji and Kokuba rivers. <\/span>Over time, the advancements of technology and culture helped to increase the relative power and influence of the <\/span>Chuzan<\/span><\/st1:placename> <\/span>Kingdom<\/span><\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>. <\/span>So much so, that the Miyako and Yaeyama archipelagos were added to the kingdom in 1390. <\/span>Five years later, after helping the Middle Kingdom rebound, at the age of 75, King Satto died, leaving the throne to his legitimate heir, Bunei.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The new king of Chuzan increased the trade agreement with China from once every two years up to 2 and 3 times, annually; <\/span>a 400~600% increase. <\/span>The Emperor valued the Ryukyuan wares to an extent that he exchanged in return items worth 50 to 100 times over the cost of said Ryukyuan goods. In 1403, a special Import – Export island named, OmonoGusuku, became designated to handle international transactions, including storage of said goods. <\/span>Although King Bunei’s foreign policy was very sound, profitable and in the model of his father, he tended to forget completely the domestic side to the equation. <\/span>For all the extravagance that the Kings wealth afforded himself, his subjects lived in a stark contrast of poverty and suffering. <\/span>When council was offered to change his ways, it was ignored. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

In part <\/span><\/strong>⑥<\/span><\/strong>, Chuzan falls to Hashi<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kings Satto and Bunei Satto, at age 29 in 1350, accepted the will of the people, and became king. In 1372, King Satto sent his brother Taiki to China, beginning a lucrative tributary relationship with the Ming emperor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}