Tomigusuku Seiryō Explained

Tomigusuku Seiryō
Native Name:豊見城 盛良
Native Name Lang:ja
Office:sanshikan of Ryukyu
Term Start:1627
Term End:1642
Predecessor:Gushichan Anshi
Successor:Kunigami Chōki
Birth Date:1 July 1586
Birth Place:Ryukyu Kingdom
Death Place:near Tokunoshima
Blank1:Childhood name
Blank2:Chinese name
Data2:Mō Taiun (毛 泰運)
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Data3:Ueekata
Parents:Tomigusuku Seizoku (father)

, also known by his Chinese style name, was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.[1]

Tomigusuku Seiryō was the sixth head of an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Tomigusuku Dunchi (Japanese: 毛氏豊見城殿内). He was the eldest son of Tomigusuku Seizoku.[1]

Tomigusuku was elected as a member of Sanshikan in 1627.[1] [2] King Shō Hō dispatched Prince Chatan Chōshū (Japanese: 北谷 朝秀, also known as Shō Kei Japanese: 尚 慶) and him in 1638 to celebrate Shimazu Mitsuhisa succeeded as daimyō of Satsuma. Prince Chatan returned to Ryukyu in the next year, but Tomigusuku remained in Satsuma to handle official business. He sailed back to Ryukyu in 1642 but his ship was shipwrecked near Tokunoshima.[1] [3] His body was not found so he had no grave.[4]

Notes and References

  1. "Tomigusuku Seiryō." Okinawa konpakuto jiten (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia").
  2. Web site: 中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本 . 2017-06-23 . 2017-09-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170902092648/http://manwe.lib.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/d-archive/s/viewer?&cd=00030240 . dead .
  3. Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.1
  4. Web site: 2013年度第4期首里大学 . syuri-sinkoukai.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180122073025/http://syuri-sinkoukai.com/13daigaku.html . 2018-01-22.