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Shō Hashi

1371 - 1439

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Shō Hashi (Shoo Hachii, 1372 – 1439) was a king of Chūzan, one of three tributary states to China on the western Pacific island of Okinawa. He is traditionally described as the unifier of Okinawa and the founder of the Ryukyu Kingdom. He was the son of the lord Shishō of the First Shō dynasty. Modern scholarship has connected Shishō's potential father, Samekawa, to a family of Southern Court-affiliated seafarers from the island of Kyushu, where Hashi was possibly born. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Shō Hashi is the 8,588th most popular politician (up from 9,514th in 2024), the 726th most popular biography from Japan (up from 770th in 2019) and the 249th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shō Hashi ranks 8,587 out of 19,576. Before him are Shawar, Ferruccio Parri, Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, Euthydemus I, and Agesilaus I. After him are Ankhwennefer, Jia Chong, Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Chen Gongbo, Chiang Wei-kuo, and Elisabeth Hevelius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1371, Shō Hashi ranks 9. Before him are Vasily I of Moscow, Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Pierre Cauchon, Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans, Leopold IV, Duke of Austria, and Sophia of Lithuania.  Among people deceased in 1439, Shō Hashi ranks 5. Before him are Albert II of Germany, Frederick IV, Duke of Austria, Joseph II of Constantinople, and Maria of Trebizond. After him is Ambrose Traversari.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shō Hashi ranks 725 out of 6,245. Before him are Isao Tomita (1932), Emperor Shijō (1231), Shinya Yamanaka (1962), Kenwa Mabuni (1889), and Izumi Shikibu (976). After him are Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Keizo Imai (1950), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Nakano Takeko (1847), Choei Sato (1951), and Ogata Kōrin (1658).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shō Hashi ranks 248. Before him are Hōjō Sōun (1432), Nitobe Inazō (1862), Ii Naosuke (1815), Shō Shin (1465), and Emperor Shijō (1231). After him are Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Shintaro Abe (1924), Prince Morikuni (1301), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Jiro Taniguchi (1947).

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