... the ubiquitous influences of mainland Japanese culture. Amami assimilation China Hokkaido Honshu Kagoshima City and Prefecture Korea migrants Miyako Island Naha Okinawa Uchinaa Ryukyu Kingdom Shikoku Taiwan Yaeyama aji regional leaders Chūzan Japan Kamakura Kyoto City Minamoto Nanzan Nara...

... and Industrial Exhibition Osaka 1903 Itoman village as center of Okinawa fishing industry Japan labor conditions Naha Okinawa Uchinaa passenger ships between Okinawa and the mainland Ryukyu Kingdom Satsuma Province han Senaga Clothing Store Naha Tokugawa shogunate Tokyo England factories employing...

...This chapter studies the archaeology of the Ryukyu Kingdom from the time of the defeat of its rivals in the early fifteenth century ad to its subjugation by Satsuma in ad 1609. In this period the newly unified Ryukyu Kingdom, consisting of Chūzan and its defeated rivals of Sanhoku...

...The author summarizes Ryukyu’s historical position in East Asia, noting how its own changes reflected the broader changes East Asian was going through. He argues that, though part of Japan today, Okinawa is still different, and he calls that difference the “its heritage from the Ryukyu Kingdom...

...Who are the people of the Ryukyu Islands? How could they survive and prosper on small, isolated islands? How did the independent Ryukyu Kingdom become a major player in East Asian medieval trade? This book explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human...

...This English translation of an Okinawan scholarly voice provides a compelling new picture of the role played by the Ryukyu Kingdom in pre-modern East Asia. Mamoru Akamine first examines the early history of the Ryukyu Islands, then goes on to detail the vital role the Ryukyu Kingdom played...