Ryukaku danki

• Author: Akazaki Kaimon
• Published: 1797
• Japanese: 琉客談記 (Ryuukaku danki)

Ryûkaku danki (lit. "record of conversations with Ryukyuan guests") is an account of various aspects of China, focusing on Ryukyuan missions to China, and published in 1797. It was written by Akazaki Kaimon, a Confucian scholar of Satsuma han, at the request of daimyô Shimazu Shigehide, and based on conversations he had with members of a Ryukyuan embassy to Edo.

The published volume included an afterword by Shibano Ritsuzan, a scholar of the Shôhei school.

References

• Gallery labels, Gallery 3: Early Modern Japan, National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura, Chiba, July 2013.
• Hakubutsukan tenji gaido 博物館展示ガイド A Guide to Permanent Exhibitions of Museum, Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum (2007), 44.