Kyūyō
Sign in to saveThe , generally abridged in is an official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, compiled by a group of historians led by between year 8 of the Qianlong era (1743) and year 10 of the same era (1745), at the request of king Shō Kei. It includes a part (twenty-two main volumes and four appendix volumes) and an part (three main volumes and one appendix volume).
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The , generally abridged in is an official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, compiled by a group of historians led by between year 8 of the Qianlong era (1743) and year 10 of the same era (1745), at the request of king Shō Kei. It includes a part (twenty-two main volumes and four appendix volumes) and an part (three main volumes and one appendix volume).
==Title== The name kyūyō is composed of two ideograms, the first, 球, corresponds to the “kyū” of Ryūkyū and the second, 陽, corresponds to the Chinese philosophic principle of yang, linked to light. It is a poetic way of naming Ryūkyū.