Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Life in the Luchu Islands, Vol. 2
For over two hundred years the islands were, more or less, under the exclusive rule of China, until in 1609 the Japanese Prince of Satsuma subdued them, but, for pecuniary reasons, did not forbid the payment of the yearly tribute to China. This double allegiance, as it were, to two countries continued until 1874, when the Japanese suddenly forbade all intercourse with China, and the King of Luchu was kept as a state prisoner in Tokyo.
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