Mamoru Shō
Mamoru Shō | |
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尚 衞 | |
 Shō in 2019 | |
| Born | 18 August 1950 Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Children | 4 |
| Parent(s) | Hiroshi Shō (father) Keiko Shō (mother) |
Mamoru Shō (尚 衞, Shō Mamoru; born 18 August 1950) is an ethnic Ryukyuan businessman who is the current head of the Shō family, the former Ryukyuan royal family. He lives in Ise City, Mie Prefecture.[1]
Life
[edit]Mamoru Shō was born in Tokyo on 18 August 1950, the eldest son of Hiroshi Shō. After graduating from Tamagawa University, he obtained an MBA from Samford University.[2][3]
He is the great-great-grandson of Shō Tai, the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and became the Shō family head upon the death of his father on 30 August 1996.[4][5] In May 2019, he established the Ryukyu History and Culture Inheritance Promotion Association and currently serves as its representative director. He has also donated a number of family documents and artefacts to Naha City for preservation.[6][7][8][9]
Family
[edit]Shō formally adopted a married couple, Takayuki and Maki, into his family, following a Japanese custom known as fūfu yōshi. Shō has a biological son named Takeshi, whom he has declined to appoint as his heir apparent, instead endorsing Takayuki and Maki. Maki serves as the current leading clergy member of the acting Kikoe-ōgimi.[10]
- Father: Hiroshi Shō[10]
- Mother: Keiko Shō (尚啓子)[10]
- Wife: Midori Iwanabe (岩辺みどり, divorced)[10]
- Son: Takeru Shō (尚猛)[10]
- Adoptive son: Takayuki Shō (尚孝之)[10]
- Adoptive daughter: Maki Shō (尚満喜)[10]
Ancestry
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Descent from Kings of Ryukyu
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^The further ancestry of Second Shō dynasty is still in dispute by historians as of today. However, according to the kingdom’s official history record, Sai On’s edition of Chūzan Seifu, the family were descended of Gihon, who was the third and the last king of Shunten dynasty that was founded by its first king, Shunten, who was mythologically a son of Minamoto no Tametomo from the Kawachi branch of the Seiwa Genji clan through his marriage with a sister of the Aji of Ōzato, which made the dynasty's lineage went back further to the Imperial House of Japan via Emperor Seiwa. However this still considered by most historians as a fabrication to justify the ruling claim during the invasion by Satsuma Domain. [12]
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Notes
[edit]- ↑ A peasant in Izena Island and the father of the first member who became a king, but died before his son ascended to the throne, and posthumously honored as king in 1699, but later stripped in 1719
- ↑ formerly a peasant in Izena Island and later fled to different islands and finally held many official positions during the era of First Shō dynasty, included being a retainer for the Prince of Goeku (later become Shō Taikyū), then also held the title of the Lord of Uchima under the name “Kanamaru” before became the first member of the family to ascended to the throne as the king via his coup d'état on Shō Toku, the last king of the previous dynasty
- ↑ formerly Prince of Kume Nakagusuku
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku
- ↑ formerly Prince of Kume Nakagusuku
- ↑ the first Prince of Kin under the name "Chōkō", founder of the Kin Palace royal branch and posthumously honored as king in 1699, but later stripped in 1719
- ↑ formerly Prince of Sashiki under the name "Chōshō"
- ↑ formerly Prince of Sashiki
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōshū"
- ↑ A heir to the throne, but died before being able to ascended to the throne
- ↑ formerly Prince of Sashiki, Prince of Yuntanza, and Prince of Nakagusuku
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōshi"
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōkō"
- ↑ A heir to the throne, but died before being able to ascended to the throne
- ↑ formerly under the name "Chōshō"
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōken"
- ↑ formerly Prince of Nakagusuku under the name "Chōken" and the last king before the annexation of the kingdom and a first to earned the title of Marquess during the establishment of the peerage system
- ↑ formerly and the final heir to the throne under the name "Chōku" and not able to ascend the throne before the annexation of the kingdom
- ↑ formerly and the last Marquess of the family before the abolition of the peerage system
References
[edit]- ↑ 尚満喜 (April 2019). "遥かなる伊勢の地より、沖縄の安寧を願う – OKINAWA41". OKINAWA41. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ↑ 尚衞 (29 May 2019). "うらおそいよりしよりに～【特別寄稿③ 尚本家第23代当主 尚衞】 – OKINAWA41". OKINAWA41. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
- ↑ "Mamoru Shō | Academic Influence". academicinfluence.com. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- ↑ "尚本家が玉陵で清明祭 尚衞さん「40年ぶり」 - 琉球新報 - 沖縄の新聞、地域のニュース". 琉球新報. 琉球新報社. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ↑ "琉球朝日放送 報道制作部 Qプラス » Qプラスリポート「尚家の清明祭(シーミー)」(1)". 琉球朝日放送. 9 April 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "尚家の資料 253点那覇市へ/尚衞さん寄贈 - 沖縄タイムス＋プラス". 沖縄タイムス. 沖縄タイムス社. 10 August 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
- ↑ "尚家文書41点国宝に 文化審答申 慶賀使節団の日誌も /沖縄 - 毎日新聞". 毎日新聞. 毎日新聞社. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ↑ "那覇市所蔵の尚家資料、国宝に 文化審議会が追加答申 - 沖縄タイムス＋プラス". 沖縄タイムス. 沖縄タイムス社. 21 March 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- ↑ "41 Sho royal family documents are to become national treasures". Ryukyu Shimpo - Okinawa, Japanese newspaper, local news. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "「実子がいるのに、夫婦養子に儀式を…」 琉球王朝「尚家」のお家騒動、何が起きているのか". デイリー新潮 (in Japanese). 30 January 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ↑ "Second Shō family genealogy". Reichsarchiv. Retrieved 10 September 2017. (in Japanese)
- ↑ Dana Masayuki 田名真之 (2008). "Ryūkyū ōken no keifu ishiki to Minamoto no Tametomo torai denshō" 琉球王権の系譜意識と源為朝渡来伝承 [Ryuyuan Royal Succession Ideology and The Minamoto Temetomo Legend]. In Kyūshū shigaku kenkyūkai 九州史学研究会 (ed.). Kyōkai no aidentiti 境界のアイデンティティ (in Japanese). Iwata Shoin 岩田書院. pp. 181–196.