This tributary relationship continued uninterrupted for over 500 years until Ryukyu was incorporated into the Japanese prefectural system as Okinawa in 1879.
此後一直到清朝光緒五年（一八七九年）琉球被日本明治政府並入版圖，確立為日本國沖繩縣為止，前後五百年，琉球王一直與中國有著密切的封貢關係。