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Created page with "*''Born: 1653/2/15'' *''Died: 1738/1/15'' *''Other Names'': 高嶺 徳明 ''(Takamine Tokumei)'' *''Japanese'': 魏 士哲 ''(Gi Shitetsu)'' Gi Shitetsu was a..."
*''Born: [[1653]]/2/15''
*''Died: [[1738]]/1/15''
*''Other Names'': [[高嶺]] 徳明 ''(Takamine Tokumei)''
*''Japanese'': [[魏]] 士哲 ''(Gi Shitetsu)''
Gi Shitetsu was a [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]].
While serving as assistant interpreter on a mission to China in [[1688]], Gi met the [[Fujian province|Fujian-based]] physician Huáng Huìyǒu<!--黄会友-->, who taught him a procedure for repairing harelip (cleft lip or palate). The following year, after returning to Ryûkyû, he performed the procedure successfully on the Crown Prince's son, who would later succeed his father as king, under the name [[Sho Eki|Shô Eki]].
Gi later rose to the position of ''Shikin daifu'', and was named ''[[jito (Ryukyu)|jitô]]'' of Takamine village.
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==References==
*"[http://ryukyushimpo.jp/okinawa-dic/prentry-41035.html Gi Shitetsu]," Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia, Ryukyu Shimpo, 1 March 2003.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Died: [[1738]]/1/15''
*''Other Names'': [[高嶺]] 徳明 ''(Takamine Tokumei)''
*''Japanese'': [[魏]] 士哲 ''(Gi Shitetsu)''
Gi Shitetsu was a [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]].
While serving as assistant interpreter on a mission to China in [[1688]], Gi met the [[Fujian province|Fujian-based]] physician Huáng Huìyǒu<!--黄会友-->, who taught him a procedure for repairing harelip (cleft lip or palate). The following year, after returning to Ryûkyû, he performed the procedure successfully on the Crown Prince's son, who would later succeed his father as king, under the name [[Sho Eki|Shô Eki]].
Gi later rose to the position of ''Shikin daifu'', and was named ''[[jito (Ryukyu)|jitô]]'' of Takamine village.
{{stub}}
==References==
*"[http://ryukyushimpo.jp/okinawa-dic/prentry-41035.html Gi Shitetsu]," Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia, Ryukyu Shimpo, 1 March 2003.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]