# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/taromai
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:43:50.887Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/taromai"
name: "Taromai"
slug: "taromai"
description: "Taromai (他魯毎), read variously as Tarumoi and Tarumī, was a local ruler of Okinawa Island, who was given the title of King of Sannan. He first contacted the Chinese emperor in 1415, claiming himself to be an heir to King Ōōso, without clearly specifying his blood relationship with the former king. He claimed that Ōōso was killed by his elder brother Tabuchi, who had in turn been killed by local chiefs, in favor of Crown Prince Taromai. This report was highly unusual because Okinawans routinely deceived the Chinese into thinking that the throne was normally succeeded from the father to the son. Historian Dana Masayuki raises the possibility that it was a cover story for Taromai's illegitimate seizure of power. His last contact was of 1429. The Chinese records suggest that the Chinese had no information on when and how the king disappeared. Because the King of Chūzan continued tributary missions, the Chinese later speculated that the Kings of Sannan and Sanhoku had been removed by the King of Chūzan."
tagline: "King of Nanzan"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Tomb_of_Tarumi_01.JPG/330px-Tomb_of_Tarumi_01.JPG"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Historical Figures"
  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Historical Figure"
  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
deathDate: "1429"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.746617333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%96%E9%AD%AF%E6%AF%8F"
    title: "他魯每"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taromai"
    title: "Taromai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taromai"
    title: "Taromai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taromai"
    title: "Taromai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BB%96%E9%AD%AF%E6%AF%8E"
    title: "他魯毎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%A4%EB%A3%A8%EB%AF%B8%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "다루미이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taromai"
    title: "Taromai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888310"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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