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[[File:Ryukyudan.JPG|right|thumb|320px|A page from ''Ryûkyû-banashi'' depicting ''[[takakura]]'' rice storehouses, from a copy in the Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, University of Hawaii Library]]
*''Written: [[Morishima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]]''
*''Written: [[Morishima Churyo|Morishima Chûryô]]''
*''Published: [[1790]] ([[Suwaraya Ichibei]], Edo), [[1795]] ([[Hayashi Ihei]], Kyoto)''
*''Published: [[1790]] ([[Suwaraya Ichibei]], Edo), [[1795]] ([[Hayashi Ihei]], Kyoto)''
While Morishima omits much of Xu's discussion of geography, climate, economy, trade, and local plants, the ''Ryûkyû banashi'' was nevertheless the first popularly accessible volume to address Ryukyuan culture in a holistic way, in contrast to certain earlier publications which touched upon only [[Ryukyuan dance]], language, music, poetry, or [[kumi odori|theater]], and not all of these together.
While Morishima omits much of Xu's discussion of geography, climate, economy, trade, and local plants, the ''Ryûkyû banashi'' was nevertheless the first popularly accessible volume to address Ryukyuan culture in a holistic way, in contrast to certain earlier publications which touched upon only [[Ryukyuan dance]], language, music, poetry, or [[kumi odori|theater]], and not all of these together.
Numerous copies survive today in libraries and archives in Japan and overseas; the text and images are also available in modern publication, in ''Morishima Chûryô shû'' ("Collection [of Works by] Morishima Chûryô").
Numerous copies survive today in libraries and archives in Japan and overseas; the text and images are also available in modern publication, in ''Morishima Chûryô shû'' ("Collection [of Works by] Morishima Chûryô").<ref>Takada Mamoru 高田衛, Hara Michio 原道生, and Ishigami Satoshi 石上敏 (eds.), ''Morishima Chûryô shû'' 森島中良集, Tokyo: Kokusho Kankôkai 国書刊行会, 1994.</ref>
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