Kanegusuku Chōten Explained

Kanegusuku Chōten
Native Name:兼城 朝典
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:sanshikan of Ryukyu
Term Start:1836
Term End:1839
Predecessor:Zakimi Seichin
Successor:Kuniyoshi Chōshō
Birth Date:?
Death Date:December 4, 1839
Blank1:Childhood name
Blank2:Chinese name
Data2:Shō Tatsukan (向 達寛), later
Shō Kan (向 寛)
Blank3:Rank
Data3:Ueekata
Parents:Tomigusuku Chōkō (father)

, also known by, his Chinese-style name and, was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

Chōten was the second son of Prince Tomigusuku Chōkō (Japanese: 豊見城 朝興), and he was also a younger brother of Prince Tomigusuku Chōshun.

Tomigusuku Chōshun and Takushi Ando were dispatched as a gratitude envoy for King Shō Iku's taking power to Edo, Japan, in 1832. Chōten sent as in the mission. However, Prince Tomigusuku died in Kagoshima on 23 September 1832 (lunar calendar 29 August). Chōten served as the political decoy of the prince, took the title "Prince Tomigusuku" and went to Edo. They sailed back in the next year.[1]

Chōten served as a member of sanshikan from 1836 to 1839.[2] He was sent to China together with Yō Tokushō (Japanese: 楊 徳昌) and Ba Ikō (Japanese: 馬 維興) as a gratitude envoy for King Shō Iku's investiture.[3] In the next year, he was seriously ill on the way home and died in Fuzhou.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.5
  2. http://manwe.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/d-archive/s/viewer?&cd=00030240 中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本
  3. Chūzan Seifu, vol.12