Takushi Seiri

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In this Okinawan name, the surname is Takushi.

Takushi Ueekata Seiri (沢岻 親方 盛里, ? – 24 September 1526), also known by the Chinese style name (唐名, Kara-naa) Mō Bunei (毛 文英) and childhood name (童名, warabi-naa) Tatsurokane (達魯加禰),[1] was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.[2] In some poems of Omoro Sōshi, he was mentioned and called Takushi Tarō (沢岻 太郎).[1][3]

Takushi Seiri was the third son of (豊見城 盛親), so he was a grandson of Gosamaru.[2] He was also the first head of an aristocrat family called (毛氏上里殿内).

Takushi served as Sanshikan during Shō Shin and Shō Sei's reign, and was trusted by the kings very much.[3] He was dispatched as congratulatory envoy to Ming China to celebrate Jiajing Emperor's coronation in 1522. He bought a litter and a tap in China, and brought them back to Ryukyu in the next year. He dedicated the litter to King Shō Shin, and fixed the tap in Ryūtoi (龍樋, "dragon rain gutter"), a spring near Zuisen gate (瑞泉門) in Shuri Castle.[2]

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b 『おもろさうし』における霊力の諸相と表現 : 霊力は不可視か
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Takushi Seiri." Okinawa konpakuto jiten (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia").
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b 字沢岻・めじろ公園の碑[おもろの碑]


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