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*''Born: [[1777]]''
*''Died: [[1832]]/10/22, [[Fushimi]]''
*''Titles'': 儀間親雲上 ''(Gima [[peechin]])''
*''Japanese'': [[蔡]]修 ''(Sai Shuu)''

Gima ''peechin'' Sai Shû was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official who served as the ''[[gieisei]]'' (head of street musicians) in the [[1832]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]]. He is known as the author of ''[[Gieisei nikki]]'', the only such journal or record by a member of a Ryukyuan embassy to be extant today.

He died during the journey to [[Edo]] in that year, at the [[Fushimi]] ''[[honjin]]'',<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 149.</ref> and is buried at [[Daikoku-ji]] (aka Satsuma-dera) in Fushimi, alongside [[Takebaru peechin]], the mission's ''[[sangikan]]'', who died the same day. He was replaced as ''gieisei'' by [[Fukuyama Seijun|Fukuyama ''peechin'' Seijun]]<!--譜久山政順-->, who then took on the title of Gima ''peechin''.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 51.; Ueki Chikako 植木ちか子, “Uzagaku no gakushi oyobi gakudoji no isho” 御座楽の楽師及び楽童子の衣装, 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), 144.</ref>

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==References==
*Ikemiya Masaharu, ''Shiryô shôkai'' 資料紹介, ''Gieisei nikki'' 儀衛生日記, ''Nihon tôyô bunka ronshû'' 1 (1995), 111.
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