1. Giwan ChōhoShō Yūkō Ginowan ueekata Chōho, also known more simply as Giwan Chōho, was a Rykyuan government official and emissary; at the time of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, he was a member of the Sanshikan, the Council of Three top government ministers in the Ryūkyū Kingdom. Giwan was the representative of the kingdom tasked, in 1872, with conveying to the king & his fellow ministers the Tokugawa shogunate's orders that the kingdom be abolished, and its territory annexed by Japan.
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