Ijichi Sueyasu

Born: 1782
Died: 1867
Japanese: 伊地知季安 (Ijichi Sueyasu, Ijichi Kian)

Ijichi Sueyasu was a Shimazu clan retainer who served the Shimazu as Kagoshima han kiroku bugyô (Magistrate of Domainal Records for Satsuma han). Along with his son Ijichi Suemichi, he is credited with compiling the Sappan kyûki zatsuroku, an extensive and valuable collection of Satsuma domain records. Sueyasu was also the author of Nanbei kikô, a three-volume treatment of Satsuma history from 607 to 1832.

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References

Gregory Smits, Maritime Ryukyu, University of Hawaii Press (2019), 225.
"Sappan kyûki zatsuroku," Nihon hyakka zensho Nipponica, Shogakukan.