Urasoe Chki | |
Native Name: | 浦添 朝憙 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Office: | sessei of Ryukyu |
Term Start: | 1835 |
Term End: | 1852 |
Predecessor: | Tomigusuku Chōshun |
Successor: | Ōzato Chōkyō |
Birth Date: | July 4, 1805 |
Death Date: | 1854 |
Blank1: | Childhood name |
Blank2: | Chinese name |
Data2: | Shō Genro (尚 元魯) |
Blank3: | Rank |
Data3: | Wōji |
Parents: | Urasoe Chōei (father) |
, also known by his Chinese style name, was a prince of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Chōki was born to the royal family Urasoe Udun (Japanese: 浦添御殿). His father was Urasoe Chōei (Japanese: 浦添 朝英). Later, Chōki became the third head of Urasoe Udun.[1]
Chōki served as sessei from 1835 to 1852.[2] He was dispatched together with Zakimi Seifu in 1839 to celebrate Tokugawa Ieyoshi when he succeeded as shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Chōki learned waka poetry from Kagawa Kageki (Japanese: 香川 景樹) during his journey. They sailed back the next year.[3]
Chōki was good at waka and Classical Chinese poetry, and was designated a member of the .[4] Chōki had no heir, and adopted his nephew Urasoe Chōchū (Japanese: 浦添 朝忠) as his son.[1]