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Created page with "*''Born: 1745'' *''Died: 1801'' *''Titles'': 兼本親雲上 ''(Kanemoto peechin)'' *''Other Names'': 宣猷 ''(Sen'yuu, or Sen'you)'' Mô Teichû was a [[Ryukyu ..."
*''Born: [[1745]]''
*''Died: [[1801]]''
*''Titles'': 兼本親雲上 ''(Kanemoto [[peechin]])''
*''Other Names'': 宣猷 ''(Sen'yuu, or Sen'you)''
Mô Teichû was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official who served as the ''[[gieisei]]'' (head of street musicians) in the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
The sixth head of the Yoseyama family, the chief family (''honke'') of the Mô family of [[Kumemura]], Teichû was known for his particularly superb calligraphy. Examples of his calligraphy can be found carved into a stone lantern at Tsushima Shrine in [[Gifu]], and on another stone lantern, this one at Komatsu-ji in [[Tomonoura]], at the grave of Yoseyama ''peechin'' [[Sho Dokyo|Shô Dôkyô]], a member of the 1790 mission who died aboardship on the way to [[Edo]].
Mô Teichû's name had originally been Sen'yô (or Sen'yû), but the [[kanji|character]] ''sen'' (lit. "proclaim," "announce") was banned within the kingdom, and so he changed his name to Teichû.
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==References==
*Watanabe Miki. "[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Main.html ''Nihon ni okeru Ryûkyû shiseki''] 日本における琉球史跡." (personal webpage).
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
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*''Died: [[1801]]''
*''Titles'': 兼本親雲上 ''(Kanemoto [[peechin]])''
*''Other Names'': 宣猷 ''(Sen'yuu, or Sen'you)''
Mô Teichû was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official who served as the ''[[gieisei]]'' (head of street musicians) in the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].
The sixth head of the Yoseyama family, the chief family (''honke'') of the Mô family of [[Kumemura]], Teichû was known for his particularly superb calligraphy. Examples of his calligraphy can be found carved into a stone lantern at Tsushima Shrine in [[Gifu]], and on another stone lantern, this one at Komatsu-ji in [[Tomonoura]], at the grave of Yoseyama ''peechin'' [[Sho Dokyo|Shô Dôkyô]], a member of the 1790 mission who died aboardship on the way to [[Edo]].
Mô Teichû's name had originally been Sen'yô (or Sen'yû), but the [[kanji|character]] ''sen'' (lit. "proclaim," "announce") was banned within the kingdom, and so he changed his name to Teichû.
{{stub}}
==References==
*Watanabe Miki. "[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Main.html ''Nihon ni okeru Ryûkyû shiseki''] 日本における琉球史跡." (personal webpage).
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Artists and Artisans]]