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| + | [[File:Sho-dokyo-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Shô Dôkyô's grave marker at [[Komatsu-dera]], [[Tomonoura]]]] |
| *''Born: c. 1767-1768'' | | *''Born: c. 1767-1768'' |
| *''Died: [[1790]]/10/13, [[Tomonoura]]'' | | *''Died: [[1790]]/10/13, [[Tomonoura]]'' |
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| *''Japanese'': 朝易 ''(Chou eki)'' | | *''Japanese'': 朝易 ''(Chou eki)'' |
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− | 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]]. |
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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-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」. |
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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」. | + | 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」. |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |