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*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[馬]]高明 ''(Ba Koumei / Mǎ Gāomíng)'' or 馬幸明 ''(Ba Koumei / Mǎ Xìngmíng)''
Ba Kômei was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-bureaucrat]] of ''[[peechin]]'' rank who commissioned the Japanese monk [[Taichu|Taichû]] to compile the ''[[Ryukyu Shinto ki|Ryûkyû Shintô ki]]'' and ''[[Ryukyu orai|Ryûkyû ôrai]]''.
Following Taichû's arrival in [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] in [[1603]] and inability to get to China, Ba helped arrange for Taichû to have a residence at [[Keirin-ji]], a Buddhist temple near [[Shuri castle]].
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==References==
*Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 58-59n2.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]