Tei Takuchu

• Other Names: 和橋 (Wakyou)
• Japanese: 鄭擇中 (Tei Takuchuu)

Tei Takuchû was a Ryukyuan official from Kumemura, who is known to have spent some time on official business in China. On at least one Ryukyuan tribute mission to China, he served as an interpreter (C: Cháo jīngdū tōng shì, J: chôkyôto tsûji) for the lead tribute envoy, and was thus one of a very few Ryukyuan officials to travel all the way to Beijing.

Takuchû traveled on at least one tribute mission

His son Tei Kôbaku (鄭宏謨) went to China in 1872.

References

• Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.