, also known by his Chinese style name , was a bureaucrat, politician and scholar of Japanese literature of the Ryukyu Kingdom.識名盛命 (しきな・せいめい)
Shikina was born to an aristocrat family called Mō-uji Inoha Dunchi (). He was the third son of Inoha Seiki, and also a younger brother of Inoha Seihei (also known as Mōi Ueekata). Both Seiki and Seihei had been served as Sanshikan,識名盛命旧宅跡(シキナセイメイキュウタクアト) and Shikina Seimei himself served as a member of Sanshikan from 1702 to 1712.中山王府相卿伝職年譜 向祐等著写本 In his term, he was assigned to take charge of collecting Omoro Sōshi (1710), and compiling (1711), the first dictionary of the Okinawan language in history.こんこうけんしゅう【混効験集】
Shikina was also the writer of , a poetic diary written in Japanese.識名盛命
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