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*''Other Names'': [[与那原]] 良傑 ''(Yonabaru Ryouketsu)''
*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[馬]] 兼才 ''(Ba Kensai / Mǎ Jiāncái)''
Yonabaru Ryôketsu, also known by his [[Ryukyuan names|Chinese-style name]] Ba Kensai, was a [[scholar-aristocracy of Ryukyu|Ryukyuan scholar-bureaucrat]] who rose to the position of [[Sanshikan]] (one of the top three advisors to the king).
After serving as a ''gakudôji'' (teenage entertainer) on an early 19th century [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo|mission to Edo]], Kensai rose to the ranks of the Sanshikan; in the 1870s, he witnessed the [[Ryukyu shobun|fall of the kingdom]] and its annexation by Imperial Japan.
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==References==
*''Ryûkyû gakki no hibiki'' 琉球楽器の響き, exhibition catalog, Shurijo Castle Park (2016), p13.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Nobility]]