- Born: c. 1767-1768
- Died: 1790/10/13, Tomonoura
- Titles: 與世山親雲上 (Yoseyama peechin)
- Chinese-style name: 向道亨 (Shou Doukyou)[1]
- 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. When the Ryukyuan mission arrived in the port town of Tomonoura (near Hiroshima), on the evening of 1790/10/13, Dôkyô had already died of illness, possibly related to the sea voyage.[2] He was 22 years old. He was buried the following morning at the temple Komatsu-ji in that town. His tombstone reads 「琉球司楽向生碑」.
Six years later, in 1796, his father Chôiku toshiyori ueekata[3], and grandfather, Sanshikan 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.
- ↑ Maehira indicates that the surname is 尚, indicating a direct relation to the royal family, rather than 向, an honorary name for non-royal aristocrats.
- ↑ Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 210.
- ↑ Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 147.