Shō Hashi

Shō Hashi (尚巴志) (1371–1439, r. 1422–1439) was the first king of the Ryūkyū Kingdom, uniting the three kingdoms of Chūzan, Hokuzan, and Nanzan by conquest. His name as rendered in Japanese is “Shō Hashi”; in Chinese, he is known as Shang Bazhi.