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Zhào Zhì was a [[Ming dynasty]] court official who served as the third Ming envoy to travel to Japan to demand the suppression of the ''[[wako|wakô]]'' and the beginning of formal [[tribute|tributary]] relations. His two predecessors, dispatched in [[1368]] and [[1369]], were unsuccessful; Zhào brought with him to Japan a list of other kingdoms which had already agreed to pay tribute to the newly-established Ming Empire, as well as a group of some fifteen Japanese Buddhist priests arrested by Chinese authorities and now being repatriated. [[Prince Kanenaga]], head of the imperial court's Kyushu headquarters, the [[Seiseifu]], agreed to take on the title of [[King of Japan]] himself and sent Zhao back to China with extensive tributary goods/gifts including a number of [[horses]], as well as some seventy Chinese individuals who had previously been captured by ''wakô'' and were now being repatriated.
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==References==
*Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 63.
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