POLITICIAN

Shō Shin

1465 - 1526

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Shō Shin (尚真, 1465–1527; r. 1477–1527) was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the third ruler of the second Shō dynasty. Shō Shin's long reign has been described as "the Great Days of Chūzan", a period of great peace and relative prosperity. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shō Shin has received more than 72,759 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Shō Shin is the 8,713th most popular politician (up from 9,267th in 2019), the 697th most popular biography from Japan (up from 762nd in 2019) and the 261st most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Shō Shin ranks 8,713 out of 19,576Before him are Fujiwara no Fuhito, Jacques-François Menou, Winfield Scott, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Christian Metz, and Lucia, Countess of Tripoli. After him are Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Princess Nadezhda of Bulgaria, Vaso Čubrilović, Peter the Patrician, Louis I of Naples, and Takako Shimazu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1465, Shō Shin ranks 14Before him are Gil Vicente, Agostino Chigi, Paulo da Gama, Bramantino, Konrad Peutinger, and Jan Provoost. After him are Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Johann von Staupitz, Philotheus of Pskov, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Beatriz Galindo, and Hector Boece. Among people deceased in 1526, Shō Shin ranks 12Before him are Scipione del Ferro, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara, Ibrahim Lodi, Rodrigo de Triana, Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, and Elisabetta Gonzaga. After him are Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Conrad Grebel, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, and Bahadur Shah of Gujarat.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Shō Shin ranks 697 out of 6,245Before him are Tomoji Tanabe (1895), Meiko Kaji (1947), Fujiwara no Teika (1162), Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628), Kenzo Ohashi (1934), and Naoko Takeuchi (1967). After him are Takako Shimazu (1939), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Keisai Eisen (1790), Prince Morikuni (1301), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), and Yoshinobu Ishii (1939).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Shō Shin ranks 261Before him are Shigenori Tōgō (1882), Ii Naosuke (1815), Katō Takaaki (1860), Gotō Shinpei (1857), Kujō Yoritsune (1218), and Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628). After him are Takako Shimazu (1939), Keisai Eisen (1790), Prince Morikuni (1301), Ashikaga Yoshihisa (1465), Shintaro Abe (1924), and Katō Tomosaburō (1861).