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Goeku ''ueekata'' Chôsei was a scholar-bureaucrat in the service of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].

Goeku ''ueekata'' Chôsei was a scholar-bureaucrat in the service of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].

He served as a member of three [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], beginning in [[1634]], when, at age 14, he traveled to Kyoto as a member of the ''koaka-gumi'' (lit. "Small Red Group"). In [[1653]], at age 33, he served as assistant to the Lead Envoy [[Kunjan Seisoku]], and again in [[1671]], at the age of 51, he served as assistant to Lead Envoy [[Kin Choten|Kin Chôten]].

He served as a member of three [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], beginning in [[1634]], when, at age 14, he traveled to Kyoto as a member of the ''koaka-gumi'' (lit. "Small Red Group"). He later traveled to [[Edo]] three times, in [[1644]], [[1653]], and [[1671]]. In 1653, at age 33, he served as assistant to the Lead Envoy [[Kunjan Seisoku]], and in 1671, at the age of 51, he served as assistant to Lead Envoy [[Kin Choten|Kin Chôten]].

He was later appointed to the [[Sanshikan]].

He was later appointed to the [[Sanshikan]].

==References==

==References==

*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 45, 47.  

*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 45, 47.

*Marco Tinello, “The Ryukyuan Embassies to Edo seen from the Shuri Royal Government’s Perspective,” in Rosa Caroli (ed.), ''Imagined Okinawa: Challenge from Time and Space'', Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (2015), 176.  

[[Category:Nobility]]

[[Category:Nobility]]

[[Category:Ryukyu]]

[[Category:Ryukyu]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]