, also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature of the Ryukyu Kingdom.識名盛命 (しきな・せいめい)
/ref> Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Inoha Dunchi (). He was the third son of

Inoha Seiki , also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom.Inoha Seiki
" ''Okinawa ...

, and also a younger brother of Inoha Seihei (also known as Mōi Ueekata). Both Seiki and Seihei had been served as ''

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 ...

'', and Shikina Seimei himself served as a member of ''

'' from 1702 to 1712. In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting '' Omoro Sōshi'' (1710), and compiling (1711), the first dictionary of the

Okinawan language The Okinawan language (, , , ) or Central Okinawan, is a Northern Ryukyuan languages, Ryukyuan language spoken primarily in the southern half of the Okinawa Island, island of Okinawa, as well as in the surrounding islands of Kerama Islands, Ker ...

in history. Shikina was also the writer of , a poetic diary written in Japanese.識名盛命
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Ueekata Sanshikan 17th-century Ryukyuan people 18th-century Ryukyuan people 1652 births 1715 deaths {{RyukyuKingdom-stub