Shikina Seimei
Shikina Seimei | |
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識名 盛命 | |
sanshikan of Ryukyu | |
In office 1702–1712 | |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | Ishadō Seifu |
Personal details | |
Born | January 29, 1652 |
Died | November 18, 1715 | (aged 63)
Parents | Inoha Seiki (father) |
Chinese name | Mō Kiryū (毛 起龍) |
Rank | Ueekata |
Shikina Ueekata Seimei (識名 親方 盛命, 29 January 1652 – 18 November 1715), also known by his Chinese style name Mō Kiryū (毛 起龍), was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature of the Ryukyu Kingdom.[1]
Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called (毛氏伊野波殿内). He was the third son of Inoha Seiki, and also a younger brother of Inoha Seihei (also known as Mōi Ueekata). Both Seiki and Seihei had been served as Sanshikan,[2] and Shikina Seimei himself served as a member of Sanshikan from 1702 to 1712.[3] In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting Omoro Sōshi (1710),[1] and compiling (混効験集) (1711), the first dictionary of the Okinawan language in history.[4]
Shikina was also the writer of Omoidegusa (思出草), a poetic diary written in Japanese.[1][5]
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- Ueekata
- Sanshikan
- People of the Ryukyu Kingdom
- Ryukyuan people
- 17th-century Ryukyuan people
- 18th-century Ryukyuan people
- 1652 births
- 1715 deaths
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