Goeku

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]

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]

He served as a member of Sanshikan from 1675 to 1683.[1][4]

References "Goeku Chōsei." Okinawa konpakuto jiten (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Rizō, Takeuchi. (1992). Okinawa-ken seishi kakei daijiten (沖縄県姓氏家系大辞典). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten. Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.2 "中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本". Archived from the original on 2017-09-02. Retrieved 2017-07-03.