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- B. J. Bettelheim’s Ryukyu Mission and Its “Martyr”: The Issue of Autonomy in the Contact-zone Kingdom
- バクマツ リュウキュウ ニ オケル ベッテルハイム ノ センキョウ ト サキハマ ノ 「 ジュンキョウ 」 : コンタクトゾーン ニ オケル ジリツセイ ニ ツイテ ノ イチ コウサツ
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説明
This essay is an attempt to approach the issue of autonomy in early-modern Ryukyu under Satsuma rule, by focusing on the function of reporting on two sides of a cross-cultural encounter: the reports by Bettelheim and by the Ryukyuan royal authorities. It is suggested that reports do not describe events straightforwardly, but in reality mirror the ingenuity of the compilers who work tactfully with the procedural manuals in order to justify their stances and ensure their survival. A case in point is the reporting of the death of a young Ryukyuan Sachihama, a turning point in Bettelheim’s mission, occurring in the midst of his Ryukyuan sojourn. His recording and reporting on Sachihama’s “martyrdom” offered him not only an opportunity to encourage the British government to reconsider its foreign policy towards Japan, but also an opportune occasion to suggest that the Loochoo Naval Mission committee had been mishandling his mission. On the Ryukyuan side, an offi cial comment on the same event found in the surviving Hyōjōsho Monjo records shows Sachihama’s case to have been downplayed. This paper draws readers’ attention to the act of a cover-up, i.e., part of an ongoing effort on the part of the senior Ryukyuan offi cials to sustain their legitimacy and polity under Japan’s “closed-door” policy.
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収録刊行物
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- IJOS: International Journal of Okinawan Studies
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IJOS: International Journal of Okinawan Studies 7 1-18, 2016-12-26
琉球大学国際沖縄研究所
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- CRID
- 1050292726794200064
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- NII論文ID
- 120006707323
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- NII書誌ID
- AA12519591
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- ISSN
- 21854882
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- HANDLE
- 20.500.12000/44727
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- NDL書誌ID
- 028102253
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- 本文言語コード
- ja
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- journal article
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