Makishi Chōchū
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was a
scholar-bureaucrat The scholar-officials, also known as literati, scholar-gentlemen or scholar-bureaucrats (), were government officials and prestigious scholars in Chinese society, forming a distinct social class. Scholar-officials were politicians and governmen ...
and
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of
Ryūkyū Kingdom The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a Tributary system of China, tributary state of Ming dynasty, imperial Ming China by the King of Ryukyu, Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island t ...
. He was also known as , and his Chinese style name, .


Life

Makishi was born in
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, the capital of Ryūkyū. He studied in
Kokugaku was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of ...
(国学 the Royal Academy of Ryūkyū) in his early years. In 1838, he traveled to
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to study, and stayed in
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for several years. When he came back to Ryūkyū, he learned English from
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(安仁屋 政輔). He was then appointed
Ikoku Tsūji Alvan Azinna Ikoku (August 1, 1900–November 18, 1971) was a Nigerian educationist, statesman, activist and politician. Life Born on August 1, 1900, in Amanagwu Arochukwu, in present-day Abia State, he was educated at Arochukwu Government P ...
(異国通詞, the diplomat towards Western countries) in 1844.


References

*『沖縄大百科事典』、沖縄タイムス、1983年 1818 births 1862 deaths 19th-century Ryukyuan people Torture victims 1860s deaths {{diplomat-stub