Gi Kokka

• Other Names: 高嶺親雲上 (Uehara peechin)
• Japanese: 魏国香 (Gi Kokka)

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)