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

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.Tamagawa Chōtatsu
" ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). Prince Tamagawa was the seventh son of 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 ...

. He was also a half-brother of King

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, Prince

Ōzato Chōkyō also known by his Chinese style name , was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom.Ōzato Chōkyō
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Ie Chōchoku , also known by the Chinese-style name , was a prince of Ryukyu Kingdom. Sometimes he was called Prince Ie () for short. Prince Ie was the fifth son of King Shō Kō. He served as ''sessei'' from 1872 to 1875. After Ryukyu was annexed by Japan i ...

. Nakazato Chōkei () had no heir and adopted him. After Chōei's death, he became 14th head of the royal family '' Tamagawa Udun'' (), and inherited the hereditary fief of his family, Kanegusuku ''

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'' (, modern a part of

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). Rizō, Takeuchi. (1992). ''Okinawa-ken seishi kakei daijiten'' (). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten. King

Shō Tai was the final King of Ryukyu, initially as Second Shō dynasty, hereditary king of the Tributary system of China#Ryukyu Kingdom, Qing tributary Ryukyu Kingdom from 8 June 1848 until 10 October 1872 and finally as the Empire of Japan, Japanese a ...

dispatched a gratitude envoy after he took power to

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in 1850. Prince Tamagawa and Nomura Chōgi (, also known by Shō Genmo ) were appointed and respectively. 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.7 Prince Tamagawa kept in close touch with the pro-Satsuma faction, including

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 ...

, Onga Chōkō and Oroku Ryōchū. It was said that they planned to depose King Shō Tai and install him. In 1859, Makishi, Onga and Oroku were involved in the Makishi Onga Incident () and arrested. Prince Ie was appointed as judge to interrogate them. Prince Ōzato suggested that Prince Tamagawa should be put into prison, but was dissuaded by the king's instructor, Tsuhako Seisei. Prince Tamagawa was banned from politics and under house arrest. He died in the same year.

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