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Created page with "*''Born: 1618?'' *''Died: 1653/2, Kagoshima'' *''Japanese'': 北谷王子朝秀 ''(Chatan ouji Choushuu)'' Prince Chatan Chôshû was a grandson of King [[Sho Kyu|Sh..."
*''Born: [[1618]]?''
*''Died: [[1653]]/2, Kagoshima''
*''Japanese'': 北谷王子朝秀 ''(Chatan ouji Choushuu)''
Prince Chatan Chôshû was a grandson of King [[Sho Kyu|Shô Kyû]] of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
He headed a mission in [[1638]] to [[Kagoshima]] to celebrate the succession of [[Shimazu Mitsuhisa]] as lord of [[Satsuma han]], and was named "Prince" on that occasion, at the age of 20. In [[1653]], at the age of 35, he was then appointed to lead a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]]; however, after arriving in Kagoshima in [[1652]]/5, he fell ill and died in 1653/2, and was replaced as Lead Envoy by [[Prince Kunjan Seisoku]].
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==References==
*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 42.
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*''Died: [[1653]]/2, Kagoshima''
*''Japanese'': 北谷王子朝秀 ''(Chatan ouji Choushuu)''
Prince Chatan Chôshû was a grandson of King [[Sho Kyu|Shô Kyû]] of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
He headed a mission in [[1638]] to [[Kagoshima]] to celebrate the succession of [[Shimazu Mitsuhisa]] as lord of [[Satsuma han]], and was named "Prince" on that occasion, at the age of 20. In [[1653]], at the age of 35, he was then appointed to lead a [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]]; however, after arriving in Kagoshima in [[1652]]/5, he fell ill and died in 1653/2, and was replaced as Lead Envoy by [[Prince Kunjan Seisoku]].
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==References==
*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 42.
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Royalty]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]