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''Chûzan seifu'' is an official history of Okinawa. There are two versions, one by [[Sai On]] and one by [[Sai Taku]]<!--蔡鐸-->, though most often it is the former that is being referred to. Sai On's version was formally completed in [[1701]], though he continued to add additional sections until [[1712]].

''Chûzan seifu'' is an official history of Okinawa. There are two versions, one by [[Sai On]] and one by [[Sai Taku]]<!--蔡鐸-->, though most often it is the former that is being referred to. Sai On's version was formally completed in [[1701]], though he continued to add additional sections until [[1712]].

The text consists of five volumes of the official history, with a particular focus on Ryûkyû-China relations, plus an additional volume focusing on relations between the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and [[Satsuma han]].

The text consists of five volumes of the official history, with a particular focus on Ryûkyû-China relations, plus an additional volume focusing on relations between the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and [[Satsuma han]]. It suppresses discussion of the kingdom's military, or military activities, and presents the history of the kingdom in a mode resembling that of the Chinese dynastic histories - a moral drama, emphasizing the virtue of individual rulers or entire dynasties.<ref name=smits>[[Gregory Smits]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>

[[Gregory Smits]] has suggested that ''Chûzan seifu'' was not a text compiled separately, but was rather a modified version of the [[1650]] history ''[[Chuzan seikan|Chûzan seikan]]'', altered to present a more pro-China version of events. Such altered versions of Ryukyuan histories were commonly given as gifts to the Chinese Court by [[Ryukyuan students in China]].<ref>[[Gregory Smits]], presentation at "[http://www.hawaii.edu/asiaref/japan/event2013/Index.htm#symposium Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan]" symposium, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11 Feb 2013.</ref>

[[Gregory Smits]] has suggested that ''Chûzan seifu'' was not a text compiled separately, but was rather a modified version of the [[1650]] history ''[[Chuzan seikan|Chûzan seikan]]'', altered to present a more pro-China version of events. Such altered versions of Ryukyuan histories were commonly given as gifts to the Chinese Court by [[Ryukyuan students in China]].<ref name=smits/>

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