Mo Sono

• Titles: Nakijin ueekata'
• Japanese/Chinese: 孟 宗能 (Mou Sounou / Mèng Zōngnéng)

Nakijin ueekata Mô Sônô was a Ryukyuan scholar-aristocrat who in 1626 led a group of teenage scholar-aristocrats in performing Ryukyuan court music and dance before Emperor Go-Mizunoo, Retired Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and lord of Kagoshima han Shimazu Iehisa at Nijô castle.

References

• Uehara Kenzen 上原兼善, "Kan'ei ki no Ryûkyû shisetsu"「寛永期の琉球使節」, 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), 165.
• Kido Hironari, "Ryukyu shisetsu no seiritsu," Shirin 99:4 (2016), 53.