SamuraiWiki

Sho Chokyo

  • Born: 1712/2/18
  • Titles: 湧川親方 (Wakugawa ueekata)
  • Other Names: 邦鼎 (Kunikane)
  • Japanese: 向 朝喬 (Shô Chôkyô)

Shô Chôkyô was a Ryukyuan scholar-bureaucrat, who served as the Vice Envoy (fukushi) on a 1764 Ryukyuan embassy to Edo. He was also known by his Japanese-style name Kunikane, and by his aristocratic title, Wakugawa ueekata.

Stubimg.gif
This article is a placeholder or stub. You can help SamuraiWiki by expanding it.

References

  • Itaya Tôru 板谷徹, “Kafu ni mirareru geinô shiryô 2: Edo nobori” 家譜に見られる芸能史料, Musa ムーサ 9 (2008), 165, citing Shô Chôkyô's kafu, as transcribed in Naha shishi 那覇市史 1:7 (1982), 186.
Retrieved from "http://samurai-archives.com/w/index.php?title=Sho_Chokyo&oldid=37096"