Kian

Japanese: 喜安 - きあん

Year of death: 10 August 1653
Year of birth: December 29, 8th year of Eiroku (January 20, 1566)
A monk who came to the Ryukyu Kingdom from Sakai, Izumi Province (Osaka Prefecture) in 1600 and served King Shō Nei. His name was Bangen. He is known for writing the Kian Diary. It is said that he served Shō Nei with the art of tea ceremony, but his career before that is unclear. When the Shimazu army invaded the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1609, he assisted Shō Nei in negotiating peace negotiations at his request, and from that year to the following year, he accompanied Shō Nei when he had audiences with the Shimazu and Tokugawa clans. In 1619, he served as the sukiya magistrate, and the following year he was awarded a fief of 50 koku. It is said that he made a great contribution to the acceptance of tea ceremony in the Ryukyu Kingdom. The Kian Diary is a valuable document from the Ryukyu side regarding the Satsuma invasion. <References> Ikemiya Masaharu, "Kian Diary" (Commentary on Volume 1 of the Naha City History Materials)

(Uehara Kaneyoshi)

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Japanese:

没年：尚質6.閏6.18(1653.8.10)
生年：永禄8.12.29(1566.1.20)
慶長5(1600)年に和泉国(大阪府)堺より琉球国に渡来し,尚寧王に仕えた僧。名は蕃元。『喜安日記』を著したことで知られる。尚寧には茶道をもって仕えたといわれるが,それ以前の経歴については明らかでない。慶長14(1609)年の島津軍の琉球侵入に際しては,尚寧の意を受けて和議に力をつくし,そして同年から翌年にかけて,尚寧の島津氏および徳川氏への拝謁となると,これに随行した。尚寧31(1619)年には数寄屋奉行を務め,翌年知行50石を給された。琉球国の茶道の受容に大きく貢献したと伝えられる。『喜安日記』は薩摩侵入に関する琉球側の貴重な資料である。<参考文献>池宮正治「喜安日記」(『那覇市史』資料編1巻解説)

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