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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.

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 journey to [[Edo]] in that year, at [[Fushimi]], and is buried at [[Daikoku-ji]] (aka Satsuma-dera) in Fushimi, alongside [[Takebaru peechin]], the mission's ''[[sangikan]]'', who died the same day. He was replaced as ''gieisei'' by Fukuyama ''peechin'', who then took on the title of Gima ''peechin''.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 51. </ref>

He died during the journey to [[Edo]] in that year, at the [[Fushimi]] ''[[honjin]]'',<ref>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), 149.</ref> and is buried at [[Daikoku-ji]] (aka Satsuma-dera) in Fushimi, alongside [[Takebaru peechin]], the mission's ''[[sangikan]]'', who died the same day. He was replaced as ''gieisei'' by Fukuyama ''peechin'', who then took on the title of Gima ''peechin''.<ref>Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 51. </ref>

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