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*''Born: [[1620]]?''
*''Japanese'': 越来親方朝誠 ''(Goeku ueekata Chousei)''
Goeku ''ueekata'' Chôsei was a scholar-bureaucrat in the service of the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]].
He served as a member of three [[Ryukyuan embassies to Edo]], beginning in [[1634]], when, at age 14, he traveled to Kyoto as a member of the ''koaka-gumi'' (lit. "Small Red Group"). In [[1653]], at age 33, he served as assistant to the Lead Envoy [[Prince Kunjan Seisoku]], and again in [[1671]], at the age of 51, he served as assistant to Lead Envoy [[Prince Kin Choten|Prince Kin Chôten]].
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==References==
*Miyagi Eishô 宮城栄昌, ''Ryûkyû shisha no Edo nobori'' 琉球使者の江戸上り, Tokyo: Daiichi Shobô (1982), 45.
[[Category:Nobility]]
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]