Keisei (monk)

autograph manuscript of Hyōtō Ryūkyū no kuni no ki, now in the Imperial Household Agency

Keisei (1189–1268) was a

China, where he stayed about a year before returning to Japan. In China, he commissioned a nanban ("southern barbarian", i.e., a Persian) to write an inscription in Persian for Myōe.^[1]

In 1222, Keisei composed a collection of

Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1244.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Donald Keene, Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 768–770.

JSTOR 2385548

^ Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert E. Morrell (eds.), The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (Princeton University Press, 1985), p. 347.

^ Herbert Plutschow, "Medieval Travel Diaries", in Steven D. Carter (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 203: Medieval Japanese Writers (Gale Group, 1999), p. 177.

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[DK-1] Donald Keene, Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 768–770.

[RP-2] JSTOR 2385548

[3] Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri and Robert E. Morrell (eds.), The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature (Princeton University Press, 1985), p. 347.

[4] Herbert Plutschow, "Medieval Travel Diaries", in Steven D. Carter (ed.), Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 203: Medieval Japanese Writers (Gale Group, 1999), p. 177.

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