Ryōan Keigo
{{Short description|Japanese monk and diplomat (1425–1514)}}
{{nihongo|Ryōan Keigo|了庵桂悟||1425–1514}} was a Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and diplomat in the Muromachi period.Goodrich, L. Carrington et al. (1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=JWpF-dObxW8C&pg=PA1149 Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644, Vol. II, pp. 1149-1150.] He was the chief envoy of a 1511–1513 mission sent by the Ashikaga shogunate to the court of the Zhengde Emperor in Beijing.
Tofuku-ji abbot
In 1486, the Rinzai monk Keigo was the 171st abbot of the Tofuku-ji monastery when the honorific title "Ryōan" was conferred by Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado. He was already considered famous when he was designated by Ashikaga Yoshizumi to lead the 1511 mission to China;Goodrich, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JWpF-dObxW8C&pg=PA1231 pp. 1231-1232.] and Yoshizumi conferred the further honorific title "Butsunichi Zenji," perhaps with the intention of impressing the Chinese.
Mission to China
The economic benefit of the Sinocentric tribute system was profitable trade. The tally trade (kangō bōeki or kanhe maoyi in Chinese) involved exchanges of Japanese products for Chinese goods. The Chinese "tally" was a certificate issued by the Ming. The first 100 such tallies were conveyed to Japan in 1404. Only those with this formal proof of Imperial permission represented by the document were officially allowed to travel and trade within the boundaries of China; and only those diplomatic missions presenting authentic tallies were received as legitimate ambassadors.Fogel, Joshua A. (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=EKSCTrJUkrwC&pg=PA27 Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time, p. 27]; [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/FOGART.html publisher's blurb].
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| 1511-1513 | Keigo | Zhengde |align="left" | Party of 600; returned with Zhengde tallies; returned leftover tallies from the Jingtai and Chenghua eras.Fogel, pp. 110-113. |
Selected works
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- Goroku
- Jinshin nyūmin ki
See also
Notes
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References
- Fogel, Joshua A. (2009). Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-03259-0}}; {{OCLC|255142264}}
- Goodrich, Luther Carrington and Zhaoying Fang. (1976). [https://books.google.com/books?id=067On0JgItAC&q=luther+carrington+goodrich Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644 (明代名人傳), Vol. I]; [https://books.google.com/books?id=JWpF-dObxW8C&q=luther+carrington+goodrich Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644 (明代名人傳), Vol. II.] New York: Columbia University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-231-03801-0}}; {{OCLC|1622199}}
- {{in lang|fr}} Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, [https://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&q=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran Annales des empereurs du Japon.] Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. {{OCLC|300555357}}
- Yoda, Yoshiie. (1996). The Foundations of Japan's Modernization: a comparison with China's Path towards Modernization. Leiden: Brill. {{ISBN|978-9-004-09999-9}}; {{OCLC|246732011}}
External links
- Autograph: [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-UMDVRC1IC-X-D08-10314%5DD08-10314 Landscape by Sesshū Tōyō with inscription by Ryōan Keigo]
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