Kyūyō

Kyūyō (球陽) is an official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom compiled between 1743 and 1745 by a group of scholar-officials led by Tei Heitetsu (鄭秉哲).

Written in kanbun, and numbering twenty-two scrolls, a supplementary volume in three scrolls documents relations with Satsuma, while a separate volume known as Irō setsuden (遺老説伝) is a compendium of one hundred and forty-two legends and folktales formerly transmitted orally.

The name, like Kiyō (崎陽) for Nagasaki and Satsuyō (薩陽) for Satsuma, is likely a poetic invocation of "Ryūkyū".

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