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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.<ref>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.</ref> 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」.
 
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.<ref>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.</ref> 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 grandfather, [[Fukuyama Choki|Fukuyama Chôki]]<!--譜久山親方朝紀-->, visited the temple and donated a plaque reading 「容顔如見」.
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Six years later, in [[1796]], his father Chôiku<!--朝郁--> ''toshiyori ueekata''<ref>''Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu'' 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 147.</ref>, and grandfather, ''[[Sanshikan]]'' [[Fukuyama Choki|Fukuyama Chôki]]<!--譜久山親方朝紀-->, visited the temple and donated a plaque reading 「容顔如見」.
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 02:47, 19 November 2016

  • Born: c. 1767-1768
  • Died: 1790/10/13, Tomonoura
  • Titles: 與世山親雲上 (Yoseyama peechin)
  • Chinese-style name: 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.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Shirarezaru Ryûkyû shisetsu 知られざる琉球使節, Fukuyama-shi Tomonoura rekishi minzoku shiryôkan (2006), 147.