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[[File:Tei-junsoku.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Statue of Tei Junsoku at the Nago Museum]]

[[File:Tei-junsoku.JPG|right|thumb|320px|Statue of Tei Junsoku at the [[Nago Museum]]]]

[[Image:Teijunsoku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A monument to Tei Junsoku on the grounds of the [[Shiseibyo|Confucian temple]] in [[Kumemura|Kume]], [[Naha]].]]

[[Image:Teijunsoku.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A monument to Tei Junsoku on the grounds of the [[Shiseibyo|Confucian temple]] in [[Kumemura|Kume]], [[Naha]].]]

*''Born: [[1663]]/10/28''<ref name=lunar>Date is on the Okinawan lunar calendar.</ref>

*''Born: [[1663]]/10/28''<ref name=lunar>Date is on the Okinawan lunar calendar.</ref>

*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[程]]順則 ''(Tei Junsoku / Chéng Shùnzé)''

*''Japanese/Chinese'': [[程]]順則 ''(Tei Junsoku / Chéng Shùnzé)''

Tei Junsoku was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] [[Confucianism|Confucian scholar]] and government official, credited with numerous major educational reforms.

Tei Junsoku was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] [[Confucianism|Confucian scholar]] and government official, credited with numerous major educational reforms. He was the seventh head of Tei lineage of [[Kumemura]].<ref>Watanabe Miki 渡邊美季. "Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo" 「琉球人行列と江戸」, in ''Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen'' 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編、Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University 神奈川大学日本常民文化研究所非文字資料研究センター (2020), 141.</ref>

Born into the [[Kumemura]] scholar-bureaucrat class, he spent four years in China as a youth, studying Confucianism, among other subjects. His father, [[Tei Taiso]]<!--程泰祚-->, was also a notable scholar-official, who journeyed to China as a member of at least two official missions.<ref>Barry D. Steben, “The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu (Liuqiu) Islands and its Historical Significance,” Sino-Japanese Studies, 11:1 (1998), 50.</ref>

Born into the [[Kumemura]] scholar-bureaucrat class, he spent four years in China as a youth, studying Confucianism, among other subjects. His father, [[Tei Taiso]]<!--程泰祚-->, was also a notable scholar-official, who journeyed to China as a member of at least two official missions.<ref>Barry D. Steben, “The Transmission of Neo-Confucianism to the Ryukyu (Liuqiu) Islands and its Historical Significance,” Sino-Japanese Studies, 11:1 (1998), 50.</ref>