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[[File:Ryukyu-kaigo.JPG|right|thumb|500px|An opening from the volume, featuring [[Hiroshige|Hiroshige's]] illustration of a portion of a Ryukyuan street procession in Edo]]
*''Date: [[1850]]''
*''Japanese'': 琉球解語 ''(Ryuukyuu kaigo)''
''Ryûkyû kaigo'' is a woodblock printed book originally published in [[1850]], written by XX and illustrated by [[Hiroshige]], describing the history and culture of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and the [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]].
Published in ''yokohon'' format<ref>The same width as the most standard ''yotsuhan'' size of books, but half as high, resulting in a horizontal format.</ref>, the book opens with an illustration of a Ryukyuan street procession in Edo. Hiroshige based the remaining illustrations in the volume closely on images in the [[1721]] ''[[Chuzan denshin roku|Chûzan denshin roku]]''.
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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), 204.
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[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
*''Date: [[1850]]''
*''Japanese'': 琉球解語 ''(Ryuukyuu kaigo)''
''Ryûkyû kaigo'' is a woodblock printed book originally published in [[1850]], written by XX and illustrated by [[Hiroshige]], describing the history and culture of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], and the [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]].
Published in ''yokohon'' format<ref>The same width as the most standard ''yotsuhan'' size of books, but half as high, resulting in a horizontal format.</ref>, the book opens with an illustration of a Ryukyuan street procession in Edo. Hiroshige based the remaining illustrations in the volume closely on images in the [[1721]] ''[[Chuzan denshin roku|Chûzan denshin roku]]''.
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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), 204.
<references/>
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]