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*''Other Names'': 伊差川親雲上 ''(Isagawa [[peechin]])''
*''Japanese'': [[鄭]]秉哲 ''(Tei Heitetsu)''

Tei Heitetsu was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-bureaucrat, known for the compilation of the ''[[Ryukyu-koku kyuki|Ryûkyû-koku kyûki]]''. A translation and adaptation of the ''[[Ryukyu-koku yuraiki|Ryûkyû-koku yuraiki]]'' into Chinese, with the additional of nine more volumes, Heitetsu completed the task in [[1731]].

In [[1752]], he served as ''gieisei'' (master of the procession & of street musicians) in that year's [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].

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

[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]]
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