Sho Hiroshi

Born: 1918
Died: 1997
Japanese: 尚裕 (Shou Hiroshi)

Shô Hiroshi was a great-grandson of Shô Tai, the last king of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, and was head of the Shô family for most of his life, following the death in 1923 of his father, Shô Shô.

In 1926, he sold the family's mansion in the Kudan neighborhood to Tokyo City, and relocated the family to a new residence in the Nanpeidai area of Shibuya.^[1]

In the postwar period, Shô Hiroshi played a key role in keeping and sharing the Shô family's treasures; a large collection of historical documents held today by the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute related to the Shô family and former Ryukyuan royal court are labeled as being from Shô Hiroshi's collection.

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References

Gallery labels, Naha City Museum of History.

↑ Hokama Masaaki 外間政明, "Shôke no takaramono ni tsuite" 「尚家の宝物について」, RYUKYU exhibition catalog, Tokyo National Museum (2022), 439.

[1] Hokama Masaaki 外間政明, "Shôke no takaramono ni tsuite" 「尚家の宝物について」, RYUKYU exhibition catalog, Tokyo National Museum (2022), 439.

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