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*''Born: [[1768]]/6/24''
*''Born: [[1768]]/6/24''
*''Other Names'': 當間親雲上 ''(Touma [[peechin]])''
*''Titles'': 當間親雲上 ''(Touma [[peechin]])''
*''Other Names'': 真蒲戸 ''(childhood name: Makamadu)''
*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[梁]]光地 ''(Ryou Kouchi / Liáng Guāngdì)''
*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[梁]]光地 ''(Ryou Kouchi / Liáng Guāngdì)''
Ryô Kôchi was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]], who served as a musician (''gakushi'') on the [[1806]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]].
Ryô Kôchi was a [[Scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]], who served as a musician (''gakushi'') on the [[1806]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]].
Kôchi succeeded his father as ''[[jito|jitô]]'' of Tôma, in Nakagusuku ''[[magiri]]'', in [[1773]].
He studied in China for three years beginning at age 25, and later served for a time as an interpreter (''tsûji''). In [[1804]], at age 36, he was appointed to serve as a ''gakushi'' on the upcoming mission to [[Edo]]; he then did so, traveling to Edo with the mission in 1806.<ref>Kaneshiro Atsumi, "Gakudôji, gakushi, kagakushi - uzagaku o tsutaeta hitobito" 「楽童子・楽師・歌楽師－御座楽を伝えた人々」, in ''Uzagaku no fukugen ni mukete'' 御座楽の復元に向けて, Naha, Okinawa: Uzagaku fukugen ensô kenkyûkai 御座楽復元演奏研究会 (2007), 77.</ref>
He studied in China for three years beginning at age 25, and later served for a time as an interpreter (''tsûji''). In [[1804]], at age 36, he was appointed to serve as a ''gakushi'' on the upcoming mission to [[Edo]]; he then did so, traveling to Edo with the mission in 1806.<ref>Kaneshiro Atsumi, "Gakudôji, gakushi, kagakushi - uzagaku o tsutaeta hitobito" 「楽童子・楽師・歌楽師－御座楽を伝えた人々」, in ''Uzagaku no fukugen ni mukete'' 御座楽の復元に向けて, Naha, Okinawa: Uzagaku fukugen ensô kenkyûkai 御座楽復元演奏研究会 (2007), 77.</ref>
==References==
==References==
*Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.
*Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.
*''Naha shishi'' vol 6 下, Naha City Office (1980), 794-795.
*''Naha shishi'' 那覇市史 vol 6 下, Naha City Office (1980), 794-795.
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