also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat of

Ryukyu Kingdom The Ryukyu Kingdom was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a Tributary system of China, tributary state of Ming dynasty, imperial Ming China by the King of Ryukyu, Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island t ...

. In 1775, Kōchi Ryōtoku and Ie Chōkei was ordered to make the first

statutory law A statute is a law or formal written enactment of a legislature. Statutes typically declare, command or prohibit something. Statutes are distinguished from court law and unwritten law (also known as common law) in that they are the expressed wi ...

in Ryukyuan history by King

Shō Boku was a king of Ryukyu. His reign began in 1752. Life Although a period of relative stability, he had to contend with a tsunami in 1771 that devastated the Miyako Islands and Yaeyama Islands. His reign also saw the Chinese envoy Chou Huang w ...

. The law was completed in 1786. It was called '' Ryūkyū Karitsu'' (), and was jointly signed by

Yonabaru Ryōku , also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. He was the ninth head of an aristocrat family, ''Ba-uji Yonabaru Dunchi'' (). He was dispatched to China to pay tribute together with Ryō Kō () in 1762,''Chūzan Se ...

, Fukuyama Chōki and Ie Chōkei, all were members of ''sanshikan''. It was officially promulgated and implemented by the king in the same year. Kōchi was dispatched together with Prince Ginowan Chōyō (also known by Ginowan Chōshō) in 1790 to celebrate

Tokugawa Ienari Tokugawa Ienari (, 18 November 1773 – 22 March 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837.Hall, John Whitney ''et al.'' (1991) ''Early Modern Japan'', p. 21./ref> ...

succeeded as ''

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'' of the

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. They sailed back in the next year.''

Chūzan Seifu was an official history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom compiled between 1697 and 1701 by a group of scholar-officials led by Sai Taku. It was a continuation of the '' Chūzan Seikan''. It is composed of 19 volumes, one of which is devoted to correspon ...

'', appendix vol.4 Kōchi served as a member of ''

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 ...

'' from 1796 to 1798.

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