Ryūkyū-koku kyū-ki

The Ryūkyū-koku kyū-ki (Japanese: 琉球國舊記 or 琉球国旧記, lit. 'Ancient chronicles of the Ryūkyū kingdom') is a chorography compiled by Tei Heitetsu Kohagura Uēkata Yūjitsu (Japanese: 鄭秉哲 古波蔵親方祐實) for the government of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. It describes notable and sacred places of the kingdom, its administrative organisation and its official ceremonies. It was presented to king Shō Kei during Year 9 of the Yongzheng Era (1731).

The Ryūkyū-koku kyū-ki corrects and completes the information from the Ryūkyū-koku yurai-ki (1713) and uses as well other original sources. It is entirely written in traditional Chinese characters and counts twenty volumes: nine main volumes and eleven appendix volumes.

Although it includes many original elements, the Ryūkyū-koku kyū-ki is often considered as a simple transcription in Chinese ideograms of the Ryūkyū-koku yurai-ki and is far less studied than its predecessor.

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