Ie Chōjo Explained

Ie Chōjo
Native Name:伊江 朝叙
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:sanshikan of Ryukyu
Term Start:1720
Term End:1745
Predecessor:Katsuren Seiyū
Successor:Fukuyama Chōken
Birth Date:?
Death Date:9 July 1745
Blank1:Childhood name
Blank2:Chinese name
Data2:Shō Wasei (向 和声)
Blank3:Rank
Data3:Ueekata
Parents:Ie Chōfu (father)

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

Chōjo was the fourth son of Ie Chōfu (Japanese: 伊江 朝敷). He was also the originator of the aristocrat family Shō-uji Ie Dunchi (Japanese: 向氏伊江殿内).[1]

King Shō Kei dispatched Prince Goeku Chōkei (Japanese: 越来 朝慶, also known as Shō Sei Japanese: 尚 盛) and him in 1718 to celebrate Tokugawa Yoshimune succeeded as shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. They sailed back in the next year.[2]

He served as a member of sanshikan from 1720 to 1745.[3]

Notes and References

  1. [Rizō Takeuchi|Rizō, Takeuchi]
  2. Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.3
  3. Web site: 中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本 . 2017-07-04 . 2017-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170902092648/http://manwe.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/d-archive/s/viewer?&cd=00030240 . dead .