File talk:First Ryukyan mission to Edo.JPG

The info provided in the Okinawa Prefectural Archives online database identifies this scroll as "date unknown" (作成年代不明). Though it is difficult to point to precise elements within the image that starkly prove it to be a later work, it is certainly similar to 18th-19th century handscrolls depicting other (later) Ryukyuan missions to Edo. I would of course never claim my own research to be definitively exhaustive, by any means, but out of what I have read and seen, viewing some 15 or so of these Ryukyuan mission procession scrolls and reading a fair bit of scholarship about them, I have seen no indications whatsoever that any images survive of the first mission to Edo (in 1644), let alone of the processions involved in King Shô Nei being forcibly brought to Edo in 1610-11, nor have I seen any indications at all that the University of Hawai'i is mistaken in saying their 1671 scroll is the only known surviving scroll depicting a 17th c. Ryukyuan embassy. No one I have spoken to at the Archives, nor anything I have read, suggests that this scroll (held by the Okinawa Prefectural Archives) depicts any 17th c. mission, let alone the "first" one. ... I'd change this myself, but figured I'd bring it to folks' attention first, rather than unilaterally start messing with things. (My work on the subject can be found here and here.) Thanks. LordAmeth (talk) 07:06, 11 October 2021 (UTC)