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*''Japanese'': [[蔡]]邦錦 ''(Sai Houkin)''

*''Japanese'': [[蔡]]邦錦 ''(Sai Houkin)''

Sai Hôkin served as a musician on the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]].

Sai Hôkin was a [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-official]] who traveled to Beijing and Edo on several occasions. He served as a musician on the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan mission to Edo]], and as a [[Ryukyuan students in China|student]] or other low-ranking member of a [[Ryukyuan tribute missions to China|mission to Beijing]] that same year.

He traveled to Edo again as a member of the [[1796]] mission, and was interviewed in [[Kagoshima]], alongside several other Ryukyuan scholar-officials, by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], regarding their experiences in China. These conversations were then published as ''[[Ryukaku danki|Ryûkaku danki]]'', and remain a notable source for historians today investigating Ryûkyû-China-Japan relations.

He traveled to Edo again as a member of the [[1796]] mission, and was interviewed in [[Edo]], alongside [[Tei Shokan|Tei Shôkan]], by [[Akazaki Kaimon]], regarding their experiences in China. These conversations were then published as ''[[Ryukaku danki|Ryûkaku danki]]'', and remain a notable source for historians today investigating Ryûkyû-China-Japan relations.

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*Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.

*Gallery labels, "Kuninda - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.

*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.

*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.

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