The largest island between Kyushu and Okinawa.
The Japanese court claimed the Kikai islands in 998 (the Dazaifu orders of that year) and Yoritomo sent men to pacify Kikaigashima in 1188 (English Wikipedia, Kikai Island); the claim had no lasting effect. The island's Kamuiyaki stoneware (11th to 14th century) is made on neighbouring Tokunoshima. No lord is known for 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- Local chiefs; no outside lord holds it
- Confidence
- low
No source names a chief or an officer for 1200; the evidence is archaeology and a few Japanese notices of 1187 and 1188 (see the Ryukyu realm record, Ryukyu).
Overlord
none known; the Dazaifu (998) and Yoritomo (1188) claimed it and the claims lapsed (Ryukyu)
How things stand that morning
No outside lord holds it; claims by Dazaifu and Yoritomo lapsed.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The campaign board entry and recollection; no province-level source for 1200 was reachable.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Drawn from the modern units round the places named. These islands were never a province of Japan: the group is a convenience of the map, not a division of 1200, and the edges follow the units.
Primary sources for Ryukyu
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
Sources and studies
- OMNIA kja regional brief (KJA_BRIEF.md), the campaign's dated traps and realm table
- OMNIA board notes and places for area kjw (starting lead only, checked against the sources)
- Kikai Island, English Wikipedia
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.