Sadoyama Anji Explained

Sadoyama Anji
Native Name:佐渡山 安治
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:sanshikan of Ryukyu
Term Start:1688
Term End:1693
Predecessor:Inoha Seiki
Successor:Yonabaru Ryōgi
Birth Date:?
Death Date:?
Blank1:Childhood name
Blank2:Chinese name
Data2:Mō Kokuzui (毛 国瑞)
Blank3:Rank
Data3:Ueekata
Parents:Ikegusuku Ansei (father)

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

Anji was the second son of Ikegusuku Ansei (Japanese: 池城 安成). In 1673, Onna magiri (Japanese: 恩納間切, modern Onna, Okinawa) was established, and granted to Anji as his hereditary fief.[1] He was the originator of Mō-uji Sadoyama Dunchi (Japanese: 毛氏佐渡山殿内).[2]

He was sent to Miyako and Yaeyama to carry out political reform in 1678. King Shō Tei dispatched Prince Nago Chōgen (Japanese: 名護 朝元, also known as Shō Kōjin Japanese: 尚 弘仁) and him in 1682 to celebrate Tokugawa Tsunayoshi succeeded as shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. In the next year, Prince Nago died in Kagoshima, and Anji sailed back to Ryukyu.[3]

Anji served as a member of Sanshikan from 1688 to 1693.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Kyūyō, vol.7
  2. [Rizō Takeuchi|Rizō, Takeuchi]
  3. Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.2
  4. 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