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*''Japanese'': [[新垣]]築兵衛 ''(Aragaki Chikubee)''
Aragaki Chikubee was a [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan]] [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-bureaucrat]] who introduced the techniques of producing Chinese paper (''tôshi'' or ''karakami'') into [[Satsuma han]], and was granted samurai status.
Originally from [[Tokashiki Island]], Aragaki traveled to [[Fuzhou]] three times as a member of official Ryukyuan missions. On one such mission, he managed to learn how to make Chinese paper - a closely-guarded secret. Whether for this reason or some other, he found himself branded an enemy of the state when he returned to his native Ryûkyû, and so fled to Satsuma. He introduced the papermaking techniques there, and was rewarded in [[1786]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of the domain, with samurai status and a position as an official Satsuma retainer.
His grave can be found today in the Yoshino-chô neighborhood of [[Kagoshima]].
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==References==
*"[http://kagoshima.digital-museum.jp/index.php?app=shiryo&mode=detail&list_id=1249436&data_id=10000060 新垣筑兵衛と是枝生胤の墓]," Kagoshima Digital Museum.
*"[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Satsuma1.html 日本における琉球関係史跡の紹介]," Watanabe Miki personal homepage.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
Aragaki Chikubee was a [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan]] [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-bureaucrat]] who introduced the techniques of producing Chinese paper (''tôshi'' or ''karakami'') into [[Satsuma han]], and was granted samurai status.
Originally from [[Tokashiki Island]], Aragaki traveled to [[Fuzhou]] three times as a member of official Ryukyuan missions. On one such mission, he managed to learn how to make Chinese paper - a closely-guarded secret. Whether for this reason or some other, he found himself branded an enemy of the state when he returned to his native Ryûkyû, and so fled to Satsuma. He introduced the papermaking techniques there, and was rewarded in [[1786]] by [[Shimazu Shigehide]], lord of the domain, with samurai status and a position as an official Satsuma retainer.
His grave can be found today in the Yoshino-chô neighborhood of [[Kagoshima]].
{{stub}}
==References==
*"[http://kagoshima.digital-museum.jp/index.php?app=shiryo&mode=detail&list_id=1249436&data_id=10000060 新垣筑兵衛と是枝生胤の墓]," Kagoshima Digital Museum.
*"[http://www.geocities.jp/ryukyu_history/Japan_Ryukyu/Satsuma1.html 日本における琉球関係史跡の紹介]," Watanabe Miki personal homepage.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
