Shikina Ueekata Seimei (識名 親方 盛命, 29 January 1652 – 18 November 1715), also known by his Chinese style name Mō Kiryū (毛 起龍), was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
[1] Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Inoha Dunchi (毛氏伊野波殿内).
[3] In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting Omoro Sōshi (1710),[1] and compiling Konkōkenshū (混効験集) (1711), the first dictionary of the Okinawan language in history.
[4] Shikina was also the writer of Omoidegusa (思出草), a poetic diary written in Japanese.
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