View source for Tamagawa Chotatsu

*''Born: [[1826]]''
*''Died: [[1862]]''
*''Titles'': 玉川王子 ''(Tamagawa ôji / Prince Tamagawa)''
*''Other Names'': [[尚]] 慎 ''(Shô Shin)''
*''Japanese'': [[玉川]] 朝達 ''(Tamagawa Chôtatsu)''

Prince Tamagawa Chôtatsu, also known by his [[Ryukyuan names|Chinese-style name]] Shô Shin, was a royal prince of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] and the 14th head of the Tamagawa ''udun'' line.<ref name=takatsu>Takatsu Takashi 高津孝, ''Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen'' 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編. Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University 神奈川大学日本常民文化研究所非文字資料研究センター (2020), 38-39.</ref>

The seventh son of King [[Sho Ko|Shô Kô]], and younger brother to King [[Sho Iku|Shô Iku]], he traveled to [[Edo]] in [[1850]] as the Lead Envoy (''seishi'') of the last [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].

He was later involved in a political scandal known as the [[Makishi-Onga Incident]] in [[1858]]-[[1859]], and was sentenced to home confinement at his mansion in [[Itoman]] (Kanegusuku ''[[magiri]]''); he died there in [[1862]].<ref name=takatsu/>

{{stub}}

==References==
*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), 124.
<references/>

[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Royalty]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]