Gi Gakusei

• Born: 1806/8/29
• Japanese: 魏 学誠 (Gi Gakusei)

Gi Gakusei was a Ryukyuan scholar-bureaucrat known for his superb skills at music and at reciting Chinese poetry from memory. He was promoted in 1837 to a rank entitled to wear a yellow court cap, and was also appointed at that time to serve as a musician (gakushi) on the 1842 Ryukyuan embassy to Edo.

References

• Itaya Tôru 板谷徹, “Kafu ni mirareru geinô shiryô 2: Edo nobori” 家譜に見られる芸能史料, Musa ムーサ 9 (2008), 180.
• Liao Zhenpei 廖真珮, "Ryûkyû kyûtei ni okeru Chûgoku kei ongaku no ensô to denshô" 琉球宮廷における中国系音楽の演奏と伝承, in Uzagaku no fukugen ni mukete 御座楽の復元に向けて, Naha, Okinawa: Uzagaku fukugen ensô kenkyûkai 御座楽復元演奏研究会 (2007), 124.
• Naha shishi 那覇市史, vol 6 上, Naha City Museum of History (1980), 44-45.