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Sanshikan of Ryukyu
A.K.A.
Nishihira Chōjo, Shō Wasei
Gender:
Male
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Biography
Ie Ueekata Chōjo (伊江 親方 朝叙, ? – 9 July 1745), also known by Nishihira Ueekata Chōjo (西平 親方 朝叙) and his Chinese style name Shō Wasei (向 和声), was a politician and bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom.
Chōjo was the fourth son of Ie Chōfu (伊江 朝敷). He was also the originator of the aristocrat family Shō-shi Ie Dunchi (向氏伊江殿内).
King Shō Kei dispatched Prince Goeku Chōkei (越来 朝慶, also known as Shō Sei 尚 盛) and him in 1718 to celebrate Tokugawa Yoshimune succeeded as shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. They sailed back in the next year.
He served as a member of sanshikan from 1720 to 1745.