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Created page with "*''Other Names'': 安恭 ''(Ankyô)'' *''Japanese'': 末吉 麦門冬 ''(Sueyoshi Bakumontô)'' Sueyoshi Bakumontô was an early 20th century journalist who worked for th..."
*''Other Names'': 安恭 ''(Ankyô)''
*''Japanese'': [[末吉]] 麦門冬 ''(Sueyoshi Bakumontô)''
Sueyoshi Bakumontô was an early 20th century journalist who worked for the ''[[Ryukyu Shimpo]]''. He is notable as the writer whose article on the planned demolition of the Main Hall of [[Shuri castle]] in 1924 caught the attention of [[Kamakura Yoshitaro|Kamakura Yoshitarô]] and [[Ito Chuta|Itô Chûta]] and led to the Hall being saved.<ref>"Beni no ugushiku"「紅の御城(うぐしく)へ」, Momoto Special Issue: Shuri, Ryûkyû no miyako o aruku モモト 別冊：首里・琉球の都をあるく (2013/8), 53.</ref>
Bakumontô also wrote art reviews; he is known to have been critical of some Okinawa-based Japanese artists such as [[Yamaguchi Zuiu]], who Bakumontô felt misrepresented Okinawa.<ref>Junko Kobayashi, "The Demise of Ryukyuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Other Historical Figures]]
*''Japanese'': [[末吉]] 麦門冬 ''(Sueyoshi Bakumontô)''
Sueyoshi Bakumontô was an early 20th century journalist who worked for the ''[[Ryukyu Shimpo]]''. He is notable as the writer whose article on the planned demolition of the Main Hall of [[Shuri castle]] in 1924 caught the attention of [[Kamakura Yoshitaro|Kamakura Yoshitarô]] and [[Ito Chuta|Itô Chûta]] and led to the Hall being saved.<ref>"Beni no ugushiku"「紅の御城(うぐしく)へ」, Momoto Special Issue: Shuri, Ryûkyû no miyako o aruku モモト 別冊：首里・琉球の都をあるく (2013/8), 53.</ref>
Bakumontô also wrote art reviews; he is known to have been critical of some Okinawa-based Japanese artists such as [[Yamaguchi Zuiu]], who Bakumontô felt misrepresented Okinawa.<ref>Junko Kobayashi, "The Demise of Ryukyuan Painting," Okinawan Art in its Regional Context symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 10 Oct 2019.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Other Historical Figures]]