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*''Born: [[1600]]''
*''Died: [[1663]]''
*''Titles'': 金武王子 ''(Prince Kin)''
*''Other Names'': [[尚]]盛 ''(Shou Sei)''
*''Japanese'': [[金武]]朝貞 ''(Kin Choutei)''

Kin Chôtei was a younger brother of King [[Sho Ho|Shô Hô]] of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. Bearing the title of Prince Kin, and the [[Ryukyuan names|Chinese-style name]] Shô Sei, he served as ''[[sessei]]'' under Shô Hô and [[Sho Shitsu|Shô Shitsu]].

Chôtei was the fifth son of [[Sho Kyu|Shô Kyû]], who was in turn the third son of King [[Sho Gen|Shô Gen]].

In [[1629]], he traveled to [[Kagoshima]] to be reaffirmed in his lands. In [[1634]], he traveled to Kagoshima again, this time as ''[[nentoshi|nentôshi]]'' (New Year's Envoy), and ended up accompanying his nephew, Prince [[Sashiki Choeki|Sashiki Chôeki]], to meet with [[Shimazu Tadatsune|Shimazu Iehisa]] and [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] in [[Kyoto]].<ref>Marco Tinello, "The termination of the Ryukyuan embassies to Edo : an investigation of the bakumatsu period through the lens of a tripartite power relationship and its world," PhD thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (2014), 45.</ref>

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==References==
*"[http://ryukyushimpo.jp/okinawa-dic/prentry-41136.html Kin Chôtei]," ''Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia'', Ryukyu Shimpo, 1 March 2003.
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