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*''Date: [[1719]]''
*''Other Names'': 中華之儀ニ付申上候覚 ''(Chūka no gi ni tsuki mōshiagemisōrō oboe)''
*''Japanese'': 大清風俗記 ''(Dai Shin fuuzoku ki)''

The ''Dai Shin fūzokuki'' (‘Record of Customs of the Great Qing’) is an official report about the [[Qing Empire]] compiled by [[Satsuma han]] on the orders of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] and submitted to him in [[1719]]. Also known as ''Chūka no gi ni tsuki mōshiagemisōrō oboe'' (‘Memorandum Regarding Matters of the Central Realm’), it consists of 34 sections and was compiled based on a number of audiences in which [[Shimazu Yoshitaka]], lord of Satsuma, questioned [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan]] royal court officials on a range of topics pertaining to Qing dynasty China.

In describing the report, historian Isoda Michifumi highlights that it would have provided Japanese readers with a "global" awareness of the existence in the world of alternative modes of governance, social class, urban organization, etc., differing from those which were normative in Japan.

Yoshimune later dispatched scholars to [[Nagasaki]] to collect further information from Chinese merchants and others based there. The results of this roughly two hundred question investigation were compiled under the title ''Shinchō tanshi'' (‘Investigations of the Qing Court’) between [[1725]] to [[1732]].

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