Difference between revisions of "Gi Kokka"
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Revision as of 00:37, 30 November 2014
Gi Kokka served as gieisei (head street musician) on the 1850 Ryukyuan mission to Edo. He died while in Japan on that mission, and is buried at Saiken-ji in Hamamatsu, alongside a Ryukyuan official who died on the 1710 mission.
References
- Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.
- Watanabe Miki. "Nihon ni okeru Ryûkyû shiseki." (personal website)
