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The first head of the Chinese interpreters was [[Feng Hui]], appointed in [[1604]]. Positions as interpreters were often passed down hereditarily, and official interpreters' students often included their direct relatives.
The first head of the Chinese interpreters was [[Feng Hui]], appointed in [[1604]]. Positions as interpreters were often passed down hereditarily, and official interpreters' students often included their direct relatives.
Some interpreters left Nagasaki to pursue other careers, including using their language skills to become teachers of Chinese language and calligraphy. [[Okajima Kanzan]] ([[1675]]-[[1728]]), who contributed to [[Ogyu Sorai|Ogyû Sorai's]] Chinese-language society and who compiled the first Japanese dictionary of vernacular Chinese, is an oft-cited example.<ref>Rebeckah Clements, "Speaking in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661–1711," ''The Journal of Asian Studies'' Vol. 76, No. 3 (August) 2017: 606.</ref>
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==References==
==References==
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 13-14.
*[[Marius Jansen]], ''China in the Tokugawa World'', Harvard University Press (1992), 13-14.
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