Dai Shin fuzokuki

• 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 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.

References

• Michifumi Isoda, "Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Investigations of the Qing Dynasty and Their Implications for Japan," Global Japanese History and Culture: De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present, Screech, White, Kataoka (eds.), Routledge (2026), pp20-24.