Sai Hokin

• Other Names: 太田親雲上 (Oota peechin)
• Japanese: 蔡邦錦 (Sai Houkin)

Sai Hôkin served as a musician on the 1790 Ryukyuan mission to Edo.

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 Ryûkaku danki, and remain a notable source for historians today investigating Ryûkyû-China-Japan relations.

References

• 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.