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Tei Junsoku

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Tei Junsoku was born in Kumemura, the Okinawan center of classical Chinese learning, in 1663. He first journeyed to China in 1683 and stayed there for four years, studying the Confucian classics, among other subjects, just as many others raised and educated in the
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system in Kumemura did over the course of the kingdom's history. He would return to China several times during his career, serving as interpreter and in other roles as a member of official missions from the kingdom.
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in 1719; Shundai would likewise include comments about the Ryūkyū Kingdom and its relationship to
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rank in the Ryukyuan government, he served at times in his career as magistrate of both
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It was standard at the time for members of Ryūkyū's aristocratic class to have
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As magistrate of Kumemura, Junsoku oversaw in 1718 the establishment of the
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would be reproduced and distributed and used as an element of textbooks in
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In 1714, he accompanied royal princes Yonagusuku and Kin in the
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Some time shortly thereafter, Junsoku presented to the shōgun,
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Index



stele
Shiseibyō
Naha, Okinawa
Confucian
Ryūkyū Kingdom
Okinawa
ueekata
Nago
Kumemura
Sanshikan
two names
scholar-bureaucrat
kingdom's official tribute mission to Edo
Tokugawa shogunate
Arai Hakuseki
Ogyū Sorai
Dazai Shundai
Satsuma han
Meirindō
Confucian temple
public school
Okinawa prefecture
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Muro Kyūsō
terakoya
"The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu (Liuqiu) Islands and Its Historical Significance"
OCLC
695209537

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