| Shikina Seimei | |
| Native Name: | 識名 盛命 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Office: | sanshikan of Ryukyu |
| Term Start: | 1702 |
| Term End: | 1712 |
| Predecessor: | Nakada Chōjū |
| Successor: | Ishadō Seifu |
| Birth Date: | 29 January 1652 |
| Blank1: | Childhood name |
| Blank2: | Chinese name |
| Data2: | Mō Kiryū (毛 起龍) |
| Blank3: | Rank |
| Data3: | Ueekata |
| Parents: | Inoha Seiki (father) |
, also known by his Chinese style name, was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature of the Ryukyu Kingdom.[1]
Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Inoha Dunchi (Japanese: 毛氏伊野波殿内). 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,[2] and Shikina Seimei himself served as a member of Sanshikan from 1702 to 1712.[3] In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting Omoro Sōshi (1710),[1] and compiling (1711), the first dictionary of the Okinawan language in history.[4]
Shikina was also the writer of, a poetic diary written in Japanese.[1] [5]