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*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 聞得大君 ''(kikoe oogimi / chifijin)''

*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 聞得大君 ''(kikoe oogimi / chifijin)''

''Kikoe-ôgimi'' was a title held by the top high priestess in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. The position was created in [[1478]] by King [[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]], who reorganized much of the royal court, aristocratic, and spiritual/religious official hierarchies at that time. From that time until the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of the kingdom]] in [[1879]], fifteen women held the position, beginning with Shô Shin's younger sister [[Utuchitunumuigani|Gessei]]. The last woman to hold the position died in 1944.<ref>Ronald Nakasone, “An Impossible Possibility,” in Nakasone (ed.), ''Okinawan Diaspora'', U Hawaii Press (2002), 6, citing William Lebra, ''Okinawan religion, belief, ritual, and social structure''. Honolulu: University

''Kikoe-ôgimi'' was a title held by the top high priestess in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]]. The position was created in [[1478]] by King [[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]], who reorganized much of the royal court, aristocratic, and spiritual/religious official hierarchies at that time. From that time until the [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolition of the kingdom]] in [[1879]], fifteen women held the position, beginning with Shô Shin's younger sister [[Utuchitunumuigani|Gessei]]. The last woman to hold the position died in 1944, but members of the former royal family continue to perform ritual offerings to the ancestors, the ''[[agari umaai]]'' "eastern pilgrimage," and other rituals.<ref>Ronald Nakasone, “An Impossible Possibility,” in Nakasone (ed.), ''Okinawan Diaspora'', U Hawaii Press (2002), 6, citing William Lebra, ''Okinawan religion, belief, ritual, and social structure''. Honolulu: University

of Hawai‘i Press (1966), 21.</ref>

of Hawai‘i Press (1966), 21.</ref>