also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat 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 ...

.Goeku Chōsei
" ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Goeku was born to an aristocrat family called '' Shō-uji Wakugawa Dunchi'' (), later became the eighth head of this family. He was also a descendant of King

Shō Sen'i Shō Sen'i (–1477) was the second ruler of the Second Shō dynasty of the kingdom of Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyu, based on the Pacific Ocean, western Pacific island of Okinawa Island, Okinawa. He briefly ruled for six months in 1477, succeeding his ...

. King

Shō Tei was the 11th King of the Second Shō Dynasty of the Ryukyu Kingdom, who held the throne from 1669 until his death in 1709."Shō Tei." ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia")Ryukyu Shimpo(琉球新 ...

dispatched a gratitude envoy for his accession to

Edo Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo. Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...

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in 1671. Prince Kin Chōkō (, also known by Shō Ki ) and he was appointed as and respectively. They sailed back in the next year. He served as a member of ''

Sanshikan The ''Sanshikan'' ( ), or Council of Three, was a government body of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, which originally developed out of a council of regents. It emerged in 1556, when the young Shō Gen, who was speech disorder, mute, ascended to the throne ...

'' from 1675 to 1683.

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