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

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

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

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

*''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]]. 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」.

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」.