, also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature 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 ...

.識名盛命 (しきな・せいめい)
/ref> Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Inoha Dunchi (). He was the third son of Inoha Seiki, and also a younger brother of Inoha Seihei (also known as Mōi Ueekata). Both Seiki and Seihei had been served as ''

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 ...

'', and Shikina Seimei himself served as a member of ''

'' from 1702 to 1712. In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting ''

Omoro Sōshi The is a compilation of ancient poems and songs from Okinawa and the Amami Islands, collected into 22 volumes and written primarily in hiragana with some simple kanji. There are 1,553 poems in the collection, but many are repeated; the number o ...

'' (1710), and compiling (1711), the first dictionary of the

Okinawan language Okinawan (, , , ), or more precisely Central Okinawan, is a Northern Ryukyuan languages, Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the Okinawa Island, island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama Islands, K ...

in history. Shikina was also the writer of , a

poetic diary or is a Japanese Japanese literature, literary genre, dating back to Ki no Tsurayuki's ''Tosa Nikki'', compiled in roughly 935. Nikki bungaku is a genre including prominent works such as the ''Tosa Nikki'', ''Kagerō Nikki'', and ''The Murasaki ...

written in Japanese.識名盛命
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Ueekata Sanshikan 17th-century Ryukyuan people 18th-century Ryukyuan people 1652 births 1715 deaths {{RyukyuKingdom-stub