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*''Written: [[1605]], [[Taichu|Taichû]] (revised [[1607]])''

*''Written: [[1605]], [[Taichu|Taichû]] (revised [[1607]])''

*''Japanese'': 琉球神道記 ''(Ryuukyuu shintou ki)''

*''Japanese'': 琉球神道記 ''(Ryuukyuu shintou ki)''

In the last sections of the book, Taichû touches upon a wide range of Ryukyuan customs and myths, from the origin of ''[[hachimaki]]'' (court caps), theories connecting Ryûkyû to the [[Dragon King|Dragon King's]] underwater palace (''Ryûgû''), and ''[[habu]]'' (Ryukyuan vipers), to whaling and fishing, [[tattoos]], and how the servants of the mountain gods are called Tarô and Jirô. The ''Ryûkyû Shintô ki'' is also significantly the first text to indicate that the kings of Ryûkyû were descended from [[Minamoto no Tametomo]]; this myth would become widely accepted, and repeated in both Ryukyuan and Japanese writings as historical fact, down until the early 20th century.

In the last sections of the book, Taichû touches upon a wide range of Ryukyuan customs and myths, from the origin of ''[[hachimaki]]'' (court caps), theories connecting Ryûkyû to the [[Dragon King|Dragon King's]] underwater palace (''Ryûgû''), and ''[[habu]]'' (Ryukyuan vipers), to whaling and fishing, [[tattoos]], and how the servants of the mountain gods are called Tarô and Jirô. The ''Ryûkyû Shintô ki'' is also significantly the first text to indicate that the kings of Ryûkyû were descended from [[Minamoto no Tametomo]]; this myth would become widely accepted, and repeated in both Ryukyuan and Japanese writings as historical fact, down until the early 20th century.

The ''Ryûkyû Shintô ki'' began to be published in Japan, in five volumes, in the 1710s, roughly a century after first being written. It was later reprinted nine times.<ref>Yokoyama, 57.</ref>

The ''Ryûkyû Shintô ki'' was first published in Japan in [[1648]],<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 5.</ref> and was then republished in five volumes in the 1710s; it was later reprinted nine more times.<ref>Yokoyama, 57.</ref>

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