Uiro _

Background

Uiro (Chen Tsung-ching) was born in 1380 in China.

Career

Uiro came to Japan after the fall of the Yuan Dynasty and a naturalized Japanese subject. Though he was invited by Shogun Yoshimitsu Ashikaga to come and live in Kamakura he continued to stay in Hakata, Chikuzen. Late in life he entered the Sufukuji Temple as a priest under the name of Meisho.

Achievements

• His descendants moved to Kyoto and invented Tocho-ko, a sort of incense used in helmets worn by courtiers to ward off bad odor from the hair. The Tocho-ko which is now a famous product of Odawara is said to have been derived from it.
  
  

Personality

Uiro was a cultured man and considered a good fortuneteller.