Sho Tei
- This article is about King Shô Tei (r. 1670-1709). For other figures by the same name, see Shô Tei (disambig).
- Titles: 中城王子 (Nakagusuku ôji; Prince Nakagusuku), 琉球国中山王 (Ryûkyû koku Chûzan-ô; King of Ryûkyû, 1670-1709)
- Japanese: 尚 貞 (Shô Tei)
Shô Tei was king of the Ryûkyû Kingdom from 1670 until 1709. Prior to his reign, as Crown Prince, he made several significant visits to Beijing and Kagoshima.
The Crown Prince paid a formal visit to Kagoshima in 1660, setting a new precedent in place of the previous system of the Crown Prince residing in Kagoshima as a hostage; this new system of formal visits from the Crown Prince continued for over a century, until 1773.
Following his father's death on 1668/11/17, the prince was formally crowned king on 1670/1/11.[1] He received investiture from the Qing Court thirteen years later, in 1683.
His eldest son, Shô Jun, died young in 1706. Shô Tei had three other sons: Shô Kei (Tomigusuku Chôryô), Shô Mô (Oroku Chôki), and Shô Ki. After his own death in 1709, however, Shô Tei was succeeded by a grandson, who took the throne as King Shô Eki.
References
- ↑ Yokoyama Manabu, Ryûkyûkoku shisetsu tôjô gyôretsu emaki wo yomu, in Kurushima Hiroshi (ed.), Egakareta gyôretsu (University of Tokyo Press, 2015), 169.
