Kawakami Hisakane

• Other Names: 川上筑後 (Kawakami Chikugo)
• Japanese: 川上 久封 (Kawakami Hisakane)

Kawakami Chikugo Hisakane was a karô in service to the Shimazu clan lords of Kagoshima han in the late Edo period. He traveled to Edo with lord of Kagoshima Shimazu Narioki and his heir Shimazu Nariakira in 1850, accompanying the final Ryukyuan embassy to Edo.

References

• Kojima Mabumi 小島摩文, Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編. Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University 神奈川大学日本常民文化研究所非文字資料研究センター (2020), 63.