, also known by Prince , was a royal of the

Ryukyu Kingdom The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a Tributary system of China, tributary state of Ming dynasty, imperial Ming China by the King of Ryukyu, Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island t ...

. He was the third head of a royal family, '' Oroku Udun'' (), and was also father of King

Shō Nei was king of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1589 to 1620. He reigned during the 1609 invasion of Ryukyu and was the first king of Ryukyu to be a vassal to the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, a Japanese feudal domain. Shō Nei was the great-grandson of Sh� ...

. Shō I was a grandson of Urasoe Chōman (Shō Ikō), the deposed crown prince of King

Shō Shin was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the third ruler of the second Shō dynasty. Shō Shin's long reign has been described as "the Great Days of Chūzan", a period of great peace and relative prosperity. He was the son of Shō En, the founder of ...

. His father was Urasoe Chōkyō. Urasoe Chōshi was one of his younger brother. Shō I had two famous sons: the eldest son was King

, the second son was Gushichan Chōsei. He died in 1584, and buried in Urasoe yōdore. Shō I was posthumously honored as king in 1699, and his

spirit tablet A spirit tablet, memorial tablet, or ancestral tablet is a placard that people used to designate the seat of a deity or past ancestor as well as to enclose it. The name of the deity or the past ancestor is usually inscribed onto the tablet. Wit ...

was placed in Sōgen-ji. His title was stripped in 1719, and his spirit tablet was moved to Tenkai-ji.''Kyūyō'', vol.10

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sho, I Second Shō dynasty Princes of Ryūkyū 16th-century Ryukyuan people 1584 deaths