, 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 ...
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[Oroku Ryōkyō]
" ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia").
Oroku Ryōkyō born to an aristocrat family called ''
Ba-uji Oroku Dunchi'' (), and was given the name . He was the eldest son of
Oroku Ryōwa. He was appointed as by King
Shō Kō
(14 July 1787 – 5 July 1834) was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, who held the throne from 1804 to 1828, when he was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Shō Iku. This was only the second time in the history of the kingdom that a king abdicate ...
in 1808 and danced ''
kumi odori
is a form of narrative traditional Ryūkyūan dance. ''Kumi odori'' or ''Kumi wudui'' means "combination dance" or "ensemble dance".
Originating in the Ryūkyūan capital of Shuri, Okinawa in 1719, the original purpose of this dance was to ...
'' for the entertainment of the
Chinese envoys.
[
He succeeded as the eleventh head of ''Ba-uji Oroku Dunchi'' after his father died in 1818.][
Oroku was elected 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 1839. Oroku changed his name to to avoid confusion with his colleague, Yonabaru Ryōkō (, also known as Ba Tokubō ). He retired in 1847.中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本
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1798 births
1859 deaths
Ueekata
Sanshikan
19th-century Ryukyuan people