Kanegusuku Chōten

Kanegusuku Ueekata Chōten, also known by Futenma Chōten, his Chinese-style name Shō Kan and Shō Tatsukan, was a bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom.
Chōten was the second son of Prince Tomigusuku Chōkō, and he was also a younger brother of Prince Tomigusuku Chōshun.
Tomigusuku Chōshun and Takushi Ando were dispatched as a gratitude envoy for King Shō Iku's taking power to Edo, Japan, in 1832. Chōten sent as sangikan in the mission. However, Prince Tomigusuku died in Kagoshima on 23 September 1832. Chōten served as the political decoy of the prince, took the title "Prince Tomigusuku" and went to Edo. They sailed back in the next year.
Chōten served as a member of sanshikan from 1836 to 1839. He was sent to China together with Yō Tokushō and Ba Ikō as a gratitude envoy for King Shō Iku's investiture. In the next year, he was seriously ill on the way home and died in Fuzhou.