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About Shō Iku
- Sho Iku (? ?, 19 August 1813 – 25 October 1847) was a king of the Ryukyu Kingdom from 1835 to 1847.
- He was the eldest son of Sho Ko.
- According to Chuzan Seifu, he was appointed regent in 1828, in place of his ailing father who was supposedly afflicted by a mental illness.
- Sho Ko died in 1834, and Sho Iku was installed as the king. Sho Iku was a Confucian scholar, and had dedicated his life to education.
- But during his reign, the financial crisis grew more and more serious.
- When a French ship arrived in Naha in 1844, Ryukyu was forced to trade with France.
- It was the first contact with Western countries.
- Théodore-Augustin Forcade, a French priest sent by Paris Foreign Missions Society, came to Ryukyu to spread the Christian Gospel.
- Bernard Jean Bettelheim, a British Protestant missionary, also arrived in Ryukyu in 1846.
- Bettelheim established the first foreign hospital on the island at the Naminoue Gokoku-ji Temple. The king died in 1847, and his second son Sho Tai succeeded him as the last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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