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After the fall of [[Shuri]] and the capture of King Shô Nei, Kyan was one of a number of officials who were taken, along with the king, to [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Sunpu]], and [[Edo]]. His ''Kyan nikki'' ("Diary of Kyan"), written sometime in the early 1620s,<ref>''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 47.</ref> covers in detail roughly two and half years, from the invasion through the king's return to Ryûkyû in [[1611]]. The original copy of this diary is now held at the [[University of the Ryukyus]]; no manuscript copies of the text seem to have circulated in early modern Japan, and the diary is not mentioned in other literature.<ref>Yokoyama, 57.</ref>

After the fall of [[Shuri]] and the capture of King Shô Nei, Kyan was one of a number of officials who were taken, along with the king, to [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]], [[Sunpu]], and [[Edo]]. His ''Kyan nikki'' ("Diary of Kyan"), written sometime in the early 1620s,<ref>''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 47.</ref> covers in detail roughly two and half years, from the invasion through the king's return to Ryûkyû in [[1611]]. The original copy of this diary is now held at the [[University of the Ryukyus]]; no manuscript copies of the text seem to have circulated in early modern Japan, and the diary is not mentioned in other literature.<ref>Yokoyama, 57.</ref>

Following their return, Kyan was made head of tea ceremony, and was eventually granted the rank & title of ''ueekata''.

Following their return, Kyan was made head of tea ceremony (''sadô gashira''),<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 208.</ref> and was eventually granted the rank & title of ''ueekata''.

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