Sho Shoko

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Shô Shôko in a 1918 photo of the Shô family.
  • Other Names: 野嵩御殿 (Nodake udun), 真如戸金 (Makadugani)
  • Japanese: 祥子 (Shô Shôko)

Shô Shôko was the last crown princess of the Ryûkyû Kingdom. A daughter of Kyan Chôon, she married Crown Prince Shô Ten shortly before the dissolution of the kingdom in the 1870s. Their son Shô Shô went on to succeed Shô Ten as head of the Shô household.