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*''Born: c. 1767-1768''

*''Born: c. 1767-1768''

*''Died: [[1790]]/10/13, [[Tomonoura]]''

*''Died: [[1790]]/10/13, [[Tomonoura]]''

*''Titles'': 與世山親雲上 ''(Yoseyama [[peechin]])''

*''Titles'': 與世山親雲上 ''(Yoseyama [[peechin]])''

*''Chinese-style name'': [[向]]道亨 ''(Shou Doukyou)''

*''Chinese-style name'': [[向]]道亨 ''(Shou Doukyou)''<ref>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.</ref>

*''Japanese'': 朝易 ''(Chou eki)''

*''Japanese'': 朝易 ''(Chou eki)''

Yoseyama ''peechin'' Chôeki, also known by the [[Okinawan name|Chinese-style name]] Shô Dôkyô, was a young [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-aristocrat, who served as a musician in the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].

Yoseyama ''peechin'' Chôeki, also known by the [[Ryukyuan names|Chinese-style name]] Shô Dôkyô, was a young [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] scholar-aristocrat, who served as a musician in the [[1790]] [[Ryukyuan embassy to Edo]].

Dôkyô never reached [[Edo]]. He died on 1790/10/13, at the age of 22, in the port town of [[Tomonoura]] (near [[Hiroshima]]), and was buried 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-dera]] in that town. His tombstone, inscribed and erected by Confucian scholar Yamamuro Nyosai<!--山室如斉--> at the orders of [[Abe Masatomo]], lord of [[Fukuyama han]], 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」.

Six years later, in [[1796]], his father [[Fukuyama Choiku|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==

*''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 10.

*''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.

*Maehira Fusaaki, "''Edo nobori no tabi to bohimei''" 江戸上りの旅と墓碑銘, ''Okinawa Bunka Kenkyû'' 21 (1995), 83ff.

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