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*''Other Names'': 當間親雲上 ''(Touma [[peechin]])''
*''Japanese'': [[梁]]光地 ''(Ryou Kouchi)''
Ryô Kôchi served as a musician on the [[1806]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]].
A piece of his calligraphy, copied onto a wooden plaque (''hengaku'') by the Japanese ''[[haikai]]'' poet [[Kurita Chodo|Kurita Chodô]], can be found today in the main hall (''hondô'') at [[Manshu-ji|Manshû-ji]] in the [[Inland Sea]] port town of [[Mitarai]] (today, part of [[Kure]] City, [[Hiroshima prefecture]]).<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 37.</ref>
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==References==
*Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
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