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Tei Taiso, or Chéng Tàizuò, was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-aristocrat]] who traveled to China at least twice as a member of official embassies. He is perhaps best known as the father of reformer [[Tei Junsoku]].
Tei Taiso, or Chéng Tàizuò, was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|scholar-aristocrat]] who traveled to China at least twice as a member of official embassies. He is perhaps best known as the father of reformer [[Tei Junsoku]].
Though not descended by blood from the [[36 Min families]] through whom [[Kumemura]] elites claimed [[Ming Dynasty|Chinese]] ancestry, Taiso was adopted as heir into the Tei family.<ref>Mino Saito, "The Roles of Ryukyuan-Chinese Tsūji in Early Eighteenth Century Ryukyu," in Mino and Miki Saito, eds., ''Tsūji, Interpreters in and around Early Modern Japan'', Palgrave Macmillan (2023), 102.</ref>
Tei Teiso traveled to China in [[1663]] as a member of a group escorting the first [[Qing Dynasty]] [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture mission]] home to China. He then stayed there for two years.
Tei Teiso traveled to China in [[1663]] as a member of a group escorting the first [[Qing Dynasty]] [[Chinese investiture envoys|investiture mission]] home to China. He then stayed there for two years.
==References==
==References==
*Barry D. Steben, “The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu (Liuqiu) Islands and its Historical Significance,” Sino-Japanese Studies, 11:1 (1998), 50.
*Barry D. Steben, “The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu (Liuqiu) Islands and its Historical Significance,” Sino-Japanese Studies, 11:1 (1998), 50.
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