contributor
27,122
edits
Changes
Created page with " Fukami Kyûdayu was a ''Kangaku'' (Chinese studies) scholar who served Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune as ''goshomotsu bugyô'' (books magistrate)...."
Fukami Kyûdayu was a ''[[Kangaku]]'' (Chinese studies) scholar who served [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] as ''[[goshomotsu bugyo|goshomotsu bugyô]]'' (books magistrate).
The grandson of a Chinese immigrant, Fukami was commissioned by Yoshimune to obtain Chinese books at [[Nagasaki]], and worked on the editing of works such as the ''Da Qing Huidian'', before being appointed ''goshomotsu bugyô''.
{{stub}}
==References==
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 71.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]