, also known by the Chinese-style name , was a bureaucrat of the
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 ...
.
[Oroku Ryōchū]
. ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia").
Ryōchū was born to an aristocrat family called
Ba-uji Oroku Dunchi (). He was the 12th head of Oroku Dunchi, and his father
, was a ''Sanshikan'' during
Shō Iku
was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1835 to 1847.
Life
He was the eldest son of Shō Kō. According to ''Chūzan Seifu'', he was appointed regent in 1828, in place of his ailing father who was supposedly afflicted by a mental illness. Shō ...
's reign.
Oroku Ryōchū was selected 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 ...
'' in 1857. He was pro-Japanese, and was a political ally of
Makishi Chōchū
was a scholar-bureaucrat and diplomat of Ryūkyū Kingdom. He was also known as , and his Chinese style name, .
Life
Makishi was born in Shuri, Okinawa, Shuri, the capital of Ryūkyū. He studied in Kokugaku (Ryukyu), Kokugaku (国学 the Royal ...
and
Onga Chōkō
Onga may refer to:
*Onga District, Fukuoka, a district of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
** Onga, Fukuoka, a town in that district
*Onga, Hungary
Onga is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County, Hungary. 10 km to Miskolc
Miskolc ( , ; ; ...
(, also known as Shō Jorin ). The election of ''Sanshikan'' would be held in 1859, Oroku helped Makishi Chōchū to offer a bribe to two Japanese samurai,
Ichiki Shirō and , in order to let Makishi be elected. However,
Zakimi Seifu
, was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. His was , later changed to .
Zakimi Seifu was born to an aristocrat family called '' Mō-uji Zakimi Dunchi'' (). He was the 11th head of this family, and his father Zakimi Seichin, was a ''Sanshikan'' d ...
, a former Sanshikan who was impeached by Onga Chōkō and had to resign before, accused Makishi Chōchū of practice bribery at election. Soon Oroku's unlawful act was exposed, he was removed from his position and arrested together with Makishi Chōchū and Onga Chōkō.
Prince Ie was appointed as judge to interrogate them. Oroku denied all the allegations but Makishi pleaded guilty. Oroku was exiled to
Ie Island and imprisoned at a temple for 500 days, while Makishi was sentenced to exile to
Yaeyama for ten years and Onga to
Kume Island
is an island, part of the Okinawa Islands and administratively part of the town of Kumejima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It has an area of . The island had a population of 8,713 (2010).
Kume Island is a volcanic island. Its principal economic a ...
for six years, respectively. This incident was known as .
Makishi Onga jiken
" ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia").
References
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1819 births
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Sanshikan
19th-century Ryukyuan people
Year of death missing