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琉球王国を訪れたイギリス人が書き残している。
"The natives almost all sing, and we heard several very sweet airs, principally plaintive: they
had many jovial drinking songs, one of which we wrote down from their singing; it was inscribed on a drinking cup,
and is as follows:
"Ty'wack koo, tawshoo, shee kackoofing,
"Chaw ung, itchee shaw, shooha neebooroo;
"Ting shee, you byee, chee taroo shoo ninnee
"Nooboo cadsee meesee carra shaw jeeroo
"Shing coodee sackee oochee noo shing."
The Chinese characters on the drinking-cup were thus translated in China,
"Tywack hoo, inspired by a jar of wine, writes an hundred pages of odes or verses without end. At the market town
of Chaw-ung he entered a wine shop to sleep. The Emperor summoned him to appear; in his haste to obey
the summons, he forgot to put on his neckcloth, and rushing into the royal presence, exclaimed, 'I am the wine-loving
immortal.'"