Ryukyu kaigo
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An opening from the volume, featuring Hiroshige's illustration of a portion of a Ryukyuan street procession in Edo
- Date: 1850
- Japanese: 琉球解語 (Ryuukyuu kaigo)
Ryûkyû kaigo is a woodblock printed book originally published in 1850, written by Tomioka Shukô and illustrated by Hiroshige, describing the history and culture of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, and the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo.
Published in yokohon format[1], the book opens with an illustration of a Ryukyuan street procession in Edo. Hiroshige based the remaining illustrations in the volume closely on images in the 1721 Chûzan denshin roku.
References
- Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 204.
- ↑ The same width as the most standard yotsuhan size of books, but half as high, resulting in a horizontal format.
