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[[File:Sho Sho.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shô Shô as seen in a 1918 photograph of the Shô family.]]
*''Born: [[1888]]''
*''Died: June 1923''
*''Titles'': 侯爵 ''(kôshaku, Marquis)''
*''Japanese'': [[尚]] 昌 ''(Shô Shô)''

[[Kazoku|Marquis]] Shô Shô was the eldest son of [[Sho Ten|Shô Ten]], final Crown Prince of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]]; his mother was known as [[Sho Shoko|Nodake ''udun'']].<ref>Roughly, "a woman of the Nodake palace, or of the Nodake noble family.</ref> 

Shô Shô was born in [[Shuri]] in [[1888]]. He moved to Tokyo in [[1896]], and attended elementary and middle school at the [[Gakushuin|Gakushûin Peers' School]]. In [[1911]], he became a student at Oxford University.<ref name=hokama>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.</ref>

He returned to Japan in 1915, and was granted an official position in the [[Board of Ceremonies]] (''Shikibukan'') within the [[Imperial Ministry]] (''Kunaishô'').<ref name=hokama/> In December 1915, he married Ogasawara Momoko<!--百子-->, a member of the [[Ogasawara clan]], former lords of [[Kokura han]].<ref name=hokama/> They had several children, including a son named [[Sho Hiroshi|Shô Hiroshi]], and a daughter named Fumiko. According to some accounts, at the ceremony he may have worn (royal) Chinese robes granted to his ancestors by the [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] or [[Qing Dynasty|Qing dynasties]].<ref>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.</ref>

Upon Shô Ten's death in 1920, Shô Shô inherited his father's position as head of the Shô family, ''kôshaku'' (Marquis), and member of the [[House of Peers]]. Shô Shô died three years later, in June 1923, at his Tokyo mansion in Kôjimachi after developing appendicitis while traveling in China.<ref name=hokama/> He was succeeded by his eldest son, Hiroshi. 

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==References==
*Gallery labels, Naha City Museum of History.
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]