Yoshiya Chiru

A legend tells that she fell in love with the Aji of Nakazatu, but she committed suicide via starvation on hearing her freedom was bought by a rich man called Kurogumo, at age 18.

She is a protagonist of Koke no shita (苔の下), written in Classical Japanese, by the pro-Japanese Ryukyuan official Heshikiya Chōbin (circa 1730), where she is referred to as Yoshiya-kimi (よしや君) and is said to have been born in 1650 and died in 1668.

Fuku Hiromi noted that Yoshiya means "what will be will be" in Japanese poetry, which Heshikiya was familiar with.

[1] Kadekaru Chizuko pointed out that earlier sources did not identify the composer of poems attributed to Yoshiya today.

[2] Hokama Shuzen observed that her poems reflected waka-style artifice and thus were composed some time around the early 18th century.