, also known by and 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 ...

Biography

Urasoe Chōri was a son of Urasoe Chōshi, and was also an younger brother of Kunigami Chōchi. He 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 1636.

Disappearance

A Spanish ship docked at

Ishigaki Island , also known as ''Ishigakijima'', is a Japanese island south-west of Okinawa Hontō and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group, behind Iriomote Island. It is located approximately south-west of Okinawa Hontō. It is within t ...

in 1624. Juan de los Angeles Rueda, who was a missionary of the

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic Church, Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilians, Castilian priest named Saint Dominic, Dominic de Gu ...

, preached to local people. Though

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was banned by

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at that time, Rueda was sheltered by a local officer Ishigaki Eishō (). He was uncovered in 1634, resulting with both Ishigaki and Rueda sent into exile and later executed. This incident was known by

Yaeyama Kirishitan Incident Yaeyama may refer to: * Yaeyama Islands, an archipelago in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan * Yaeyama District, Okinawa, an administrative division covering most of the Yaeyama Islands * Yaeyama language, a language spoken in the Yaeyama Islands * Japan ...

(). After this incident, Ryukyu started to investigate religious beliefs of its people, and forced Christians to convert ('' Shūmon-aratame'' ). Urasoe Chōri went to

Satsuma Satsuma may refer to: * Satsuma (fruit), a citrus fruit * ''Satsuma'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails Places Japan * Satsuma, Kagoshima, a Japanese town * Satsuma District, Kagoshima, a district in Kagoshima Prefecture * Satsuma Domain, a ...

to report the result of '' Shūmon-aratame'', but on the way home, his ship was caught in a storm and disappeared in the sea.''

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.1 His position was vacant until 1641.

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