Gi Kokka

• Other Names: 高嶺 親雲上 (Takamine 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)