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*''Japanese'': 官生 ''(kanshou)'', 勤学 ''(kingaku)''

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Over the course of the history of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], a small number of Ryukyuan students from aristocratic and royal families were sent to study [[Confucianism|Confucian]] political philosophy, law, astronomy, calendrics, history, and the [[Confucian classics]] at the [[National Academy]] (''Guozijuan''). At the beginning of this period, the Academy was located in the capital of [[Nanjing]], but after the [[Yongle Emperor]] moved the capital to [[Beijing]] c. [[1402]]-[[1421]], the Academy was moved as well.

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Over the course of the history of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]], a small number of Ryukyuan students from aristocratic and royal families were sent to study [[Confucianism|Confucian]] political philosophy, law, astronomy, calendrics, history, and the [[Confucian classics]] at the [[National Academy]] (''Guozijuan'').<ref> At the beginning of this period, the Academy was located in the capital of [[Nanjing]], but after the [[Yongle Emperor]] moved the capital to [[Beijing]] c. [[1402]]-[[1421]], the Academy was moved as well.</ref> They may have been the only foreign students at the Academy, other than some rare cases of Russians being permitted to study there.<ref>Akamine Mamoru, Lina Terrell (trans.), Robert Huey (ed.), ''The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia'', University of Hawaii Press (2017), 94.</ref>

The first Ryukyuan students to travel to China under this system did so in [[1392]]. Three of them were named Nishimi, Eiji, and Kohama.<ref name=tomi41>Tomiyama Kazuyuki, ''Ryûkyû ôkoku no gaikô to ôken'', Yoshikawa kôbunkan (2004), 41.</ref>

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