Mamoru Shō
Head of former Ryukyuan royal family
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Mamoru Shō (尚 衞, Shō Mamoru; born 18 August 1950) is an ethnic Ryukyuan businessman who is the current head of the Shō family, the former Ryukyuan royal family. He lives in Ise City, Mie Prefecture.[1]
Keiko Shō (mother)
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| Born | 18 August 1950 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Hiroshi Shō (father) Keiko Shō (mother) |
Life
Mamoru Shō was born in Tokyo on 18 August 1950, the eldest son of Hiroshi Shō. After graduating from Tamagawa University, he obtained an MBA from Samford University.[2][3]
He is the great-great-grandson of Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and became the Shō family head upon the death of his father on 30 August 1996.[4][5] In May 2019, he established the Ryukyu History and Culture Inheritance Promotion Association and currently serves as its representative director. He has also donated a number of family documents and artefacts to Naha City for preservation.[6][7][8][9]
Family
Shō formally adopted a married couple, Takayuki and Maki, into his family, following a Japanese custom known as fūfu yōshi. Shō has a biological son named Takeru, whom he has declined to appoint as his heir apparent, instead endorsing Takayuki and Maki. Maki serves as the current acting Kikoe-ōgimi.[10]
- Father: Hiroshi Shō[10]
- Mother: Keiko Shō (尚啓子)[10]
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^The further ancestry of Second Shō dynasty is still in dispute by historians as of today. However, according to the kingdom’s official history record, Sai On’s edition of Chūzan Seifu, the family were descended of Gihon, who was the third and the last king of Shunten dynasty that was founded by its first king, Shunten, who was mythologically a son of Minamoto no Tametomo from the Kawachi branch of the Seiwa Genji clan through his marriage with a sister of the Aji of Ōzato, which made the dynasty's lineage went back further to the Imperial House of Japan via Emperor Seiwa. However this still considered by most historians as a fabrication to justify the ruling claim during the invasion by Satsuma Domain. [12]
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Notes
- A peasant in Izena Island and the father of the first member who became a king, but died before his son ascended to the throne, and posthumously honored as king in 1699, but later stripped in 1719
- formerly a peasant in Izena Island and later fled to different islands and finally held many official positions during the era of First Shō dynasty, included being a retainer for the Prince of Goeku (later become Shō Taikyū), then also held the title of the Lord of Uchima under the name “Kanamaru” before became the first member of the family to ascended to the throne as the king via his coup d'état on Shō Toku, the last king of the previous dynasty
- formerly Prince of Kume Nakagusuku
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku
- formerly Prince of Kume Nakagusuku
- the first Prince of Kin under the name "Chōkō", founder of the Kin Palace royal branch and posthumously honored as king in 1699, but later stripped in 1719
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōshū"
- A heir to the throne, but died before being able to ascended to the throne
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōshi"
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōkō"
- A heir to the throne, but died before being able to ascended to the throne
- formerly under the name "Chōshō"
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōken"
- formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōken" and the last king before the annexation of the kingdom and a first to earned the title of Marquess during the establishment of the peerage system
- formerly and the final heir to the throne under the name "Chōku" and not able to ascend the throne before the annexation of the kingdom
- formerly and the last Marquess of the family before the abolition of the peerage system