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* ''Titles: [[Anji|Lord]] of [[Soshiki Mairi]], King of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], King of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]''
 
* ''Titles: [[Anji|Lord]] of [[Soshiki Mairi]], King of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], King of [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]''
 
* ''Other names: Hashi''
 
* ''Other names: Hashi''
* ''Japanese/Chinese:'' [[尚]]巴志 ''(Shou Hashi / Shang Bazhi)''
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* ''Japanese/Chinese:'' [[尚]] 巴志 ''(Shou Hashi / Shang Bazhi)''
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Shô Hashi was the first king of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (today [[Okinawa Prefecture]]), having united the islands' three kingdoms of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], [[Hokuzan]], and [[Nanzan]] by conquest.
 
Shô Hashi was the first king of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] (today [[Okinawa Prefecture]]), having united the islands' three kingdoms of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], [[Hokuzan]], and [[Nanzan]] by conquest.
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Shô Hashi died in [[1439]], at the age of sixty-eight, having united Ryûkyû and established its place as a small, but recognized, power in the region. Upon his death, the court appointed his second son, [[Sho Chu|Shô Chû]], his successor, and sent emissaries to the Chinese court to ask for investiture, to the Japanese [[Ashikaga shogunate|Shogun]] in [[Kyoto]] and to the courts of a number of other kingdoms, as diplomatic missions.
 
Shô Hashi died in [[1439]], at the age of sixty-eight, having united Ryûkyû and established its place as a small, but recognized, power in the region. Upon his death, the court appointed his second son, [[Sho Chu|Shô Chû]], his successor, and sent emissaries to the Chinese court to ask for investiture, to the Japanese [[Ashikaga shogunate|Shogun]] in [[Kyoto]] and to the courts of a number of other kingdoms, as diplomatic missions.
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