Yonabaru Ueekata Ryōchō (与那原 親方 良暢, 16 December 1698 – 17 October 1754[1]), also known by his Chinese style name Ba Genretsu (馬 元烈), was a politician and bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom. He was born to an aristocrat family Ba-uji Yonabaru Dunchi (馬氏与那原殿内).
King Shō Kei dispatched Prince Gushichan Chōri (具志川 朝利, also known as Shō Shōki 尚 承基) and him in 1748 to celebrate Tokugawa Ieshige succeeded as shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. They sailed back in the next year.[2]
He served as a member of sanshikan from 1752 to 1754.[1]
References
- ^ a b 中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本
- ^ Chūzan Seifu, appendix vol.3