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*''Japanese'': 琉客談記 ''(Ryuukaku danki)''

*''Japanese'': 琉客談記 ''(Ryuukaku danki)''

''Ryûkaku danki'' (lit. "record of conversations with Ryukyuan guests") is an account of various aspects of China, focusing on Ryukyuan missions to China, and published in [[1797]]. It was written by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], a Confucian scholar of [[Satsuma han]], at the request of ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Shigehide]], and based on conversations he had with members of the [[1796]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] about their experiences in China.

''Ryûkaku danki'' (lit. "record of conversations with Ryukyuan guests") is an account of various aspects of China, focusing on Ryukyuan missions to China, and published in [[1797]]. It was written by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], a Confucian scholar of [[Satsuma han]], at the request of ''daimyô'' [[Shimazu Shigehide]], and based on conversations he had, in [[Edo]],<ref>Ta-Tuan Ch’en, “Sino–Liu-Ch'iuan Relations in the Nineteenth Century,” PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 1963, 123.</ref> with members of the [[1796]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]] about their experiences in China.

Two of those interviewed were ''gieisei'' (head of street musicians) [[Tei Shokan|Tei Shôkan]] and musician [[Sai Hokin|Sai Hôkin]]. Akazaki asked them, in [[Chinese language|Chinese]], about the route they traveled to Beijing, their stay in Beijing, things they heard while in China, and so forth, in order to record whatever new and useful information he could about China.<ref>Maehira Fusaaki, ''Ryûkyû shisetsu no ikoku taiken'' 琉球使節の異国体験, ''Kokusai kôryû'' 国際交流 59 (1992), 63.</ref>

Two of those interviewed were ''gieisei'' (head of street musicians) [[Tei Shokan|Tei Shôkan]] and musician [[Sai Hokin|Sai Hôkin]]. Akazaki asked them, in [[Chinese language|Chinese]], about the route they traveled to Beijing, their stay in Beijing, things they heard while in China, and so forth, in order to record whatever new and useful information he could about China.<ref>Maehira Fusaaki, ''Ryûkyû shisetsu no ikoku taiken'' 琉球使節の異国体験, ''Kokusai kôryû'' 国際交流 59 (1992), 63.</ref>