Shō Iku

Shō Iku (尚 育, 19 August 1813 – 25 October 1847) was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1835 to 1847.According to Chūzan Seifu, he was appointed regent in 1828, in place of his ailing father who was supposedly afflicted by a mental illness.Due to the economic distress at the time of his installation, Shō Iku forwent his investiture ceremony and distributed the funds to the districts as relief aid.Théodore-Augustin Forcade, a French priest sent by Paris Foreign Missions Society, came to Ryukyu to spread the Christian Gospel.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This article about the Ryūkyū Kingdom or a related topic is a stub.
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