Ie Chōjo
, also known by and his Chinese style name , was a politician and bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom. Chōjo was the fourth son of Ie Chōfu (). He was also the originator of the aristocrat family ''Shō-uji Ie Dunchi'' (). King Shō Kei dispatched Prince Goeku Chōkei (, also known as Shō Sei ) and him in 1718 to celebrate Tokugawa Yoshimune succeeded as ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate. They sailed back in the next year.''Chūzan Seifu'', appendix vol.3 He served as a member of ''sanshikan'' from 1720 to 1745. References

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Sanshikan
The ''Sanshikan'' (), or Council of Three, was a government body of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, which originally developed out of a council of regents. It emerged in 1556, when the young Shō Gen, who was speech disorder, mute, ascended to the throne of Ryūkyū. The council of regents that formed in order to handle this challenge and manage the country on the king's behalf soon grew into an established and powerful government organ. Shō Gen died in 1571, but the Council remained, acting alongside the successive kings in managing the affairs of government. In fact, the ''Articles Subscribed to by the King's Councillors'', which bound the royal government in loyalty and servitude to the Japanese ''daimyō'' of Satsuma Domain, Satsuma, explicitly prohibit the king from "entrust[ing] the conduct of public affairs in the islands to any persons other than San-shi-kuan".Kerr p163. Over time, the Sanshikan eclipsed the power and prestige of the ''sessei'', a post which is often translated as " ...
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