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*''Born: [[1777]]''
*''Died: [[1832]]/10/22, [[Fushimi]]''
*''Titles'': 儀間親雲上 ''(Gima [[peechin]])''
*''Japanese'': 蔡修 ''(Sai Shuu)''
Gima ''peechin'' Sai Shû was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-official who served as the ''[[gieisei]]'' (head of street musicians) in the [[1832]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]]. He is known as the author of ''[[Gieisei nikki]]'', the only such journal or record by a member of a Ryukyuan embassy to be extant today.
He died during the return journey from [[Edo]] in that year, at [[Fushimi]], and is buried at [[Daikoku-ji]] (aka Satsuma-dera) in Fushimi, alongside [[Takehara peechin]], the mission's ''[[sangikan]]'', who died the same day.
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==References==
*Ikemiya Masaharu, ''Shiryô shôkai'' 資料紹介, ''Gieisei nikki'' 儀衛生日記, ''Nihon tôyô bunka ronshû'' 1 (1995), 111.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Nobility]]