Person1372 – 1439
Shō Hashi
King who unified Ryukyu (r. 1422–1439); as king of Chūzan he destroyed Hokuzan in 1416 and Nanzan in 1429, uniting the Three Kingdoms with Shuri as the capital
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Shō Hashi of Chūzan unified Ryukyu, long divided among three Okinawan kingdoms, in 1429 and made Shuri his capital. As a Ming tributary, Ryukyu prospered on entrepôt trade linking China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.
Themes this person appears in
- Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500
The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon