Sho Shoki

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  • Born: 1705/1/13
  • Titles: 具志川王子 (Gushikawa ôji)
  • Other Names: 朝利 (Chôri)
  • Japanese: 承基 (Shô Shôki)

Prince Gushikawa Chôri Shô Shôki was a royal prince of the Ryûkyû Kingdom, who served as the Lead Envoy (seishi) on a 1748 Ryukyuan embassy to Edo.

He was a seventh-generation descendant of Prince Kume-Gushikawa Chôtsû (aka Shô Kôhaku), the eldest son of King Shô Gen.[1]

References

  • Itaya Tôru 板谷徹, “Kafu ni mirareru geinô shiryô 2: Edo nobori” 家譜に見られる芸能史料, Musa ムーサ 9 (2008), 162, citing Shô Chôri's kafu, held by the Naha City Museum of History.
  1. Hirayama Toshijirô 平山敏治郎, "Nyûrai Ryûkyû ki" 入来琉球記, Minzoku gaku kenkyûsho kiyô 民俗学研究所紀要 3 (1978/12), 100.