, also known by his 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 Ryōwa was a son of
Hamamoto Ryōkyō (). He was adopted by
Oroku Ryōei
is a district on the southern edge of the city of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture in southern Japan. It was formerly a village independent from Naha, but it was incorporated into the city in 1954. The village hosted an airfield used by th ...
() because Ryōei had no heir. Later, he became the tenth head of the aristocratic family called
Ba-uji Oroku Dunchi ().
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 ...
dispatched a
gratitude envoy for his accession to
Edo
Edo (), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the '' de facto'' capital of Japan from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogu ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
in 1806. Prince
(, also known as Shō Tairetsu ) and Oroku Ryōwa were appointed as and respectively. They sailed back in the next year.
He 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 1811 to 1818.
中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本
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References
1765 births
1818 deaths
Ueekata
Sanshikan
18th-century Ryukyuan people
19th-century Ryukyuan people
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