Ryo Kochi

• Other Names: 當間親雲上 (Touma peechin)
• Japanese: 梁光地 (Ryou Kouchi)

Ryô Kôchi served as a musician on the 1806 Ryukyuan mission to Edo.

A piece of his calligraphy, copied onto a wooden plaque (hengaku) by the Japanese haikai poet Kurita Chodô, can be found today in the main hall (hondô) at Manshû-ji in the Inland Sea port town of Mitarai (today, part of Kure City, Hiroshima prefecture); the temple also holds the original calligraphic work, on a scroll, in its storehouses.

References

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