Gusukuma Seihō

He was also known as Ji Ryō (自了) and by the Chinese-style name Qin Kesheng (欽可聖, J: Kin Kasei).

His father was a musician, but Gusukuma was born deaf[3] and he focused his energies in a different direction, teaching himself to paint.

[2] Hearing of the young painter, King Shō Hō called him to his court, and bestowed upon him the name Ji Ryō.

It is said that the Chinese investiture envoys who witnessed his painting compared him to some of the top painters in China, and that Kanō Yasunobu, court painter for the Tokugawa shogunate, similarly praised the artist when one of Gusukuma's works was brought to Edo by the 1634 Ryukyuan envoy.

There is only one extant work which bears a Seal (rakan) confirming it to have been painted by Gusukuma.