Goeku Chōsei
Ryukyuan bureaucrat (1621–1695)
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Goeku Ueekata Chōsei (越来 親方 朝誠; 23 December 1621–1 May 1695) also known by his Chinese style name Shō Mizai (向 美材), was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.[1]
Preceded byGushichan Antō
Succeeded byInamine Seihō
BornDecember 23, 1621
DiedMay 1, 1695 (aged 73)
Goeku was born to an aristocrat family called Shō-uji Wakugawa Dunchi (向氏湧川殿内), later became the eighth head of this family.[1] He was also a descendant of King Shō Sen'i.[2]
King Shō Tei dispatched a gratitude envoy for his accession to Edo, Japan in 1671. Prince Kin Chōkō (金武 朝興, also known by Shō Ki 尚 熙) and he was appointed as Envoy (正使, seishi) and Deputy Envoy (副使, fukushi) respectively. They sailed back in the next year.[3]
