Sho Dokyo

• Died: 1790/10/13, Tomonoura
• Titles: 與世山親雲上 (Yoseyama peechin)
• Chinese-style name: 向道亨 (Shou Doukyou)
• Japanese: 朝易 (Chou eki)

Yoseyama peechin Chôeki, also known by the Chinese-style name Shô Dôkyô, was a young Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat, who served as a musician in the 1790 Ryukyuan embassy to Edo.

Dôkyô never reached Edo. He died on 1790/10/13, in the port town of Tomonoura (near Hiroshima), and was buried at the temple Komatsu-ji in that town. His tombstone reads 「琉球司楽向生碑」.

Six years later, in 1796, his grandfather, Fukuyama Chôki, visited the temple and donated a plaque reading 「容顔如見」.

References

• Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku! 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 10.
• Maehira Fusaaki, "Edo nobori no tabi to bohimei" 江戸上りの旅と墓碑銘, Okinawa Bunka Kenkyû 21 (1995), 83ff.