Zuicho Tachibana

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Zuicho Tachibana (橘 瑞超) was a Japanese explorer of Central Asia. He made three trips to Central Asia between 1902 and 1910, all financed by Count Otani. Although he travelled as a priest of the Jodo Shinshu sect, he was suspected by British and Russian Intelligence of being an officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

For more details of Tachibana's expeditions, see Expeditions of Count Otani.

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• Hopkirk, Peter (1980). Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0-87023-435-8.