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Hearing of the young painter, King [[Sho Ho|Shô Hô]] called him to his court, and bestowed upon him the name Ji Ryô. It is said that the [[Chinese investiture envoys]] who witnessed his painting compared him to some of the top painters in China, and that [[Kano Yasunobu|Kanô Yasunobu]], court painter for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], similarly praised the artist when one of Gusukuma's works was brought to [[Edo]] by the [[1634]] [[Ryukyuan embassy]]<ref name=jinmei/><ref name=arts/>.

Hearing of the young painter, King [[Sho Ho|Shô Hô]] called him to his court, and bestowed upon him the name Ji Ryô. It is said that the [[Chinese investiture envoys]] who witnessed his painting compared him to some of the top painters in China, and that [[Kano Yasunobu|Kanô Yasunobu]], court painter for the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], similarly praised the artist when one of Gusukuma's works was brought to [[Edo]] by the [[1634]] [[Ryukyuan embassy]]<ref name=jinmei/><ref name=arts/>.

Most of Gusukuma's works were destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa. There is only one extant work which bears a seal (''rakan'') confirming it to have been painted by Gusukuma<ref name=jinmei/><ref name=arts/>. It is held by the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, has been designated an Okinawa Prefectural Important Cultural Property, and depicts a fantastic creature known as ''bai ze'' in Chinese and ''hakutaku'' in Japanese<ref name=arts/>.

Most of Gusukuma's works were destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa. There is only one extant work which bears a seal (''rakan'') confirming it to have been painted by Gusukuma<ref name=jinmei/><ref name=arts/>. It is held by the Okinawa Prefectural Museum, has been designated an Okinawa Prefectural Important Cultural Property, and depicts a fantastic creature known as ''bai ze'' in Chinese (J: ''hakutaku'')<ref name=arts/>.

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