# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sho-shoken
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:47:08.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sho-shoken"
name: "Shō Shōken"
slug: "sho-shoken"
description: "Shō Shōken , also known as Haneji Ōji Chōshū , was a Ryukyuan scholar and served as sessei, a post often translated as \"prime minister,\" from 1666 to 1673. Shō wrote the first history of the Ryukyu Kingdom, Chūzan Seikan , and enacted a number of practical political reforms aimed at improving Ryukyu's prosperity and dignity in the eyes of China and Japan."
tagline: "Sessei of Ryukyu; Ryūkyū scholar (1617-1676)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1617-06-06"
deathDate: "1676-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.367857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%91%E8%B1%A1%E8%B3%A2"
    title: "向象賢"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%83%D9%86"
    title: "شو شوكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Dken"
    title: "Shō Shōken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Dken"
    title: "Shō Shōken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Dken"
    title: "Shō Shōken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%BD%E5%9C%B0%E6%9C%9D%E7%A7%80"
    title: "羽地朝秀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%87%BC_%EC%87%BC%EC%BC%84"
    title: "쇼 쇼켄"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q843010"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump