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| + | *''Born: [[1750]]/2/4'' |
| *''Other Names'': 太田親雲上 ''(Oota [[peechin]])'' | | *''Other Names'': 太田親雲上 ''(Oota [[peechin]])'' |
| *''Japanese'': [[蔡]]邦錦 ''(Sai Houkin)'' | | *''Japanese'': [[蔡]]邦錦 ''(Sai Houkin)'' |
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− | Sai Hôkin served as a musician on the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]]. | + | Sai Hôkin was a [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]] who traveled to Beijing and Edo on several occasions. He served as a musician on the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]], and as a [[Ryukyuan students in China|student]] or other low-ranking member of a [[Ryukyuan tribute missions to China|mission to Beijing]] the following year. |
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− | He traveled to Edo again as a member of the [[1796]] mission, and was interviewed in [[Kagoshima]], alongside several other Ryukyuan scholar-officials, by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], regarding their experiences in China. These conversations were then published as ''[[Ryukaku danki|Ryûkaku danki]]'', and remain a notable source for historians today investigating Ryûkyû-China-Japan relations. | + | He traveled to Edo again as a master musician (''gakushi'') on the [[1796]] mission, and was interviewed in [[Edo]], alongside [[Tei Shokan|Tei Shôkan]], by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], regarding their experiences in China. These conversations were then published as ''[[Ryukaku danki|Ryûkaku danki]]'', and remain a notable source for historians today investigating Ryûkyû-China-Japan relations.<ref>[[Akazaki Kaimon]] 赤崎海門, ''[[Ryukaku danki|Ryûkaku danki]]'' 「琉客談記」 1796, reprinted in ''Shiseki shûran'' 「史籍集覧」, vol 16, Kyoto: Rinsen shoten (1996), 632.</ref> |
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| + | At some point after 1800, Sai Hôkin returned to Beijing at least one more time, as Secretary to the two chief tribute envoys. |
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| *Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014. | | *Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014. |
| *Maehira Fusaaki, ''Ryûkyû shisetsu no ikoku taiken'' 琉球使節の異国体験, ''Kokusai kôryû'' 国際交流 59 (1992), 63. | | *Maehira Fusaaki, ''Ryûkyû shisetsu no ikoku taiken'' 琉球使節の異国体験, ''Kokusai kôryû'' 国際交流 59 (1992), 63. |
| + | *Ta-Tuan Ch’en, “Sino–Liu-Ch'iuan Relations in the Nineteenth Century,” PhD dissertation, Indiana University (1963), 124-125. |
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| [[Category:Ryukyu]] | | [[Category:Ryukyu]] |
| [[Category:Edo Period]] | | [[Category:Edo Period]] |
| [[Category:Nobility]] | | [[Category:Nobility]] |