Bai Ien

• Born: 1813
• Titles: 高里親雲上 (Takazato peechin), 福地親雲上 (Fukuji peechin), 御仮屋守 (ukaiya mui)
• Japanese/Chinese: 貝唯延 (Bai Ien / Bèi wéiyán)

Bai Ien was the seventh head of the Bai family of the scholar-aristocracy of Naha.

He served as gohyôgu atai hissha (secretary of equipping soldiers) from 1856 to 1858, and was then appointed ukaiya mui, a post within the zaiban bugyôsho (office of the Satsuma han resident officials in Ryûkyû), in 1858. Later that same year, his father Bai Iki died, and Ien inherited his position as jitô of Henoko in Kushi magiri, and title of Takasato peechin. Ien was later named jitô of Fukuji in Kyan magiri, with the title of Fukuji peechin.

Ien was named satôza ôyako (deputy head of the Sugar Guild) in 1862, and also served for a time as head of the Omonogusuku, the highest position a Naha scholar-bureaucrat could aspire to.

He had three sons (Bai Ikyô 貝唯恭, Bai Izen 貝唯善, and Bai Iga 貝唯賀) and two daughters (Umitû 貝思戸 and Magami 真亀); his second son, Bai Izen, succeeded him as head of the family.

Preceded by: Bai Iki

Head of Bai family 1858-?

Succeeded by: Bai Izen

References

• Naha shizoku no isshô 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010).