Sho Shun (向俊)

• Japanese/Chinese: 向 俊 (Shou Shun / Xiàng Jùn)

Shô Shun was a Ryukyuan scholar-bureaucrat who was appointed gaku-keiko bugyô in 1762, overseeing music & dance rehearsals, overall, in preparation for the 1764 Ryukyuan embassy to Edo. He was accompanied in this post by Mô Kôkyû.

References

• Liao Zhenpei 廖真珮, "Ryûkyû kyûtei ni okeru Chûgoku kei ongaku no ensô to denshô" 琉球宮廷における中国系音楽の演奏と伝承, in Uzagaku no fukugen ni mukete 御座楽の復元に向けて, Naha, Okinawa: Uzagaku fukugen ensô kenkyûkai 御座楽復元演奏研究会 (2007), 122.