Comments by "Cloud Cai" (@cloudcai4177) on "What The Chinese Think Of Japan l ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. The first published description of the islands in Europe appears in a book imported by Isaac Titsingh in 1796. His small library of Japanese books included Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu (三國通覧圖說, An Illustrated Description of Three Countries) by Hayashi Shihei.[34] This text, which was published in Japan in 1785, described the Ryūkyū Kingdom.[35] Hayashi followed convention in giving the islands their Chinese names in his map in the text, where he coloured them in the same pink as China.[36]
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