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AlexandraAll right, they've done it again : next saturday, we have a conf about gusuku fortresses, the <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyu</a> history society monthly meeting and the japanese <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/archaeozoology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#archaeozoology</a> yearly meeting (that takes place in Okinawa this year). Come on people, you all know each other, is it very difficult to choose different days ?And aslo the Peaceful Love Rock Festival, but I won't complain about that, it's not as if the organisators of the festival would know many archaeologists...<a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a>

Alo Japan<a href="https://www.alojapan.com/1296270/book-review-the-legacy-of-the-ryukyu-kingdom-an-okinawa-history/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.alojapan.com/1296270/book-review-the-legacy-of-the-ryukyu-kingdom-an-okinawa-history/</a> BOOK REVIEW | The Legacy of the Ryukyu Kingdom: An Okinawa History #<a href="https://channels.im/tags/visitjapanjp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#visitjapanjp</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BattleOfOkinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BattleOfOkinawa</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/KurayoshiTakara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KurayoshiTakara</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/LegacyOfTheRyukyuKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegacyOfTheRyukyuKingdom</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/OkinawaNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OkinawaNews</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/RobertDEldridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RobertDEldridge</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyu</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/ShuriCastle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShuriCastle</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/UniversityOfTheRyukyus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UniversityOfTheRyukyus</a> <a href="https://channels.im/tags/%E6%B2%96%E7%B8%84" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#沖縄</a> The Legacy of the Ryukyu Kingdom: An Okinawa History (March 2025) is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asian history, maritime diplomacy, and indigenous identity. Avail…

💧🌏 Greg CocksNon-Collisional Orogeny In Northeast Japan Driven By Nearby Same-Dip Double Subduction -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01704-5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01704-5</a> <-- shared paper -- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/structuralgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#structuralgeology</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/subduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#subduction</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#system</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/plate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#plate</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geometry</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mantle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mantle</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tectonics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geodynamics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/orogeny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#orogeny</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IzuBoninMarianas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IzuBoninMarianas</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/kinematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kinematics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/backarc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#backarc</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/earthquake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earthquake</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/fault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fault</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faulting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#faulting</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/orogenesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#orogenesis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platetectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#platetectonics</a>

K-ZO da SnowmanCopied from Hiromi on Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/hiromicota.bsky.social/post/3ljqsvaefok2i" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/hiromicota.bsky.social/post/3ljqsvaefok2i</a>A book called "Tattoo Traditions in Asia" recently came out. 1 of the topics is the hajichi of the Ryukyu Islands. The author seems to have only spoken with a tattoo artist who's also not Ryukyuan. Discussing an Indigenous tattoo practice without involving any Indigenous people is bullshit.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/Uchinaa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Uchinaa</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/Loochoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Loochoo</a>

Unseen JapanAcross the islands, Okinawans are reconnecting with their languages. Traditional dance, theater, and music are blossoming. And now, as knowledge of the separate history of Ryukyu spreads, so too does the story of the hajichi tattoos. <a href="https://youtu.be/dHOOkwaLKdQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/dHOOkwaLKdQ</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#japan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/unseenjapan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unseenjapan</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/ujwebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ujwebsite</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#okinawa</a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyu</a>

Alexandra<a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/nejame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nejame</a> oh, that's the first cultural lecture organized by ogimi ! it starts with salutations from diverse important people, they want ogimi's culture to reach everyone (yeah) so they started with nejame, because they also think it's quite an underrated gusuku. goto is involved in the excavations since 2021. he works on the whole <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyu</a> archipelago ＋ taiwan and other neighbouring areas. and he thinks nejame roxxes.

Alexandrai will be live tooting the last (apparently, but we will be back 😁) meeting of the 「ryukyuan history as seen through funerary practices research group」, that will be a public meeting held at the prefectural museum starting at 13:30 today. i suppose we won't be able to discuss as much as generally, given the size of the room and the number of lay attendants but i swear it will nevertheless be terribly interesting. hashtag <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ryufun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryufun</a> , mute it if you don't like tombs. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyu</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@archaeodons</a>

AlexandraIt is also said that her third son, Ameku Aji, became the Lord of Hokuzan Gusuku, after having married Haneji Aji’s daughter. It would mean that Majinigani was the mother of the next generation’s kings of Chuzan, Nanzan and Hokuzan. What a woman, she is the Alienor of Aquitaine of Ryūkyū. There is sacred place related to Satto called ‘Kuganinā’ (the Golden Palace). This is supposedly the site of the house where Satto lived before he became king. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraAfter the death of King Eiji, his sons kill each other to obtain the throne, until only the fourth one remains, who becomes King Tamagusuku. It is during this troubled period that Majinigani fled to Mashiki and became the wife of Okuma Ufuya. She is said to have given birth to a daughter (later Kikoeookimi [Highest priestess of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. It is not clear if the rank already existed at the time]) and a son (later King Satto). <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraThus, it seems pretty legit that Okuma Ufuya was not born into a poor family, but into a powerful family in the village of Jana. The legend literally says that his house was strewn with gold, that should be a hint. The wife of this Okuma Ufuya, who is supposed to have been a heavenly maiden, is also said to have been the second daughter of King Eiji, the third king of the Eiso Dynasty, Majinigani. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

Alexandra[...] or a someone who died in the battle when Ufuzato Gusuku was taken, etc. The biological father of Okuma Kanjā was Hintuna Satunushi, born in Hentona Village in Kunigami Magiri, who lived in Shinzato Village in Sashiki Magiri when he was young, but later moved to Jana Village in Ginowan Magiri. See? crossing the island, again and again. Legend has it that Hintuna Satunushi's father was Namisato Aji, a man visited all of Okinawa Island to teach the planting of cereal seeds. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraAnother tradition says that Okuma Ufuya's father was called Okuma Kanjā (blacksmith) and moved from Okuma Village in Nakagusuku Magiri to Mashiki village in Ginowan Magiri. Mashiki village did not exist yet at this time, so the source is doubtful, but the distance is easier to cover than when the family came from Kunigami. They probably came to Jana Village and not Mashiki. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraTheories are quite numerous. Most of them agree though that Okuma Ufuya was probably not a poor peasant. The first theory says that Okuma Ufuya was from Okuma Village in Kunigami Magiri . that’s a bit far, but people in 13th-15th century Ryūkyū spent their time crossing the island to go and dwell elsewhere… “Ufuya” is a title that generally refers to the head of the pioneer household of a village (the nīya), or at least of an important household. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraThis heavenly maiden legend is included in several historical books compiled by the Ryūkyū royal administration, such as the Chūzan Seikan (Reflexions on Chūzan, 1650), the aforementioned Chūzan Seifu (1701) and the Kyūyō (1745). It is not clear whether the compiler of the first of these books, the Chūzan Seikan, Haneji Chōshū, created himself the story based on Japanese legends or if he just wrote down a legend that had originally been passed down from generation to generation. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

Alexandra'Okuma Ufuya was a pure-hearted man by nature, and always devoted himself to farming, but he was poor and unable to marry. One day, on his way home from his fields, he saw a heavenly maiden bathing in Mui-nu-kā, hid her dress of feathers and took her home as his wife.' This is the moment we are glad the text mentioned at the very beginning that he was a pure-hearted man, because we would probably not have been able to figure it out by ourselves by judging by his actions… <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraSatto (1321-1395) was the king of Chūzan, one of the three kingdoms in Okinawa Island before the whole island was united into the Ryūkyū Kingdom. He is *historical*. I mean, he really existed, we're sure of that, even if his life story is full of legends. (I say that because we have several other old kings who are completely "legendary"). I was going to talk about Kaniman but I suppose I should start with Satto... <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a>

AlexandraThe University of the Ryukyus created a website to search in six different Ryukyuan languages dictionaries, the "Great Ryukyuan Languages Dictionary". <a href="https://ryukyu-lang.lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ryukyu-lang.lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/</a> <a href="https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1477785" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1477785</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Okinawa</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryūkyū</a> It includes the languages of Naha-Shuri, Amami, Nakijin, Yoron, Ie and Irabu. You can search from Japanese and get the word in all the languages at once or in one specific language if you feel so enclined.

Chunshek (he/him/his)The latest forecast for <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TropicalStorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TropicalStorm</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Gaemi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gaemi</a> has moved its trajectory westward.• The eye is now expected to pass to the west of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a> Islands, rather than through <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Ishigakijima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ishigakijima</a>. • It will skirt the northern tip of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Taiwan</a>, with gale force winds covering the northern two-thirds of the island by late Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning. • It may make landfall between <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Zhejiang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Zhejiang</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Fujian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fujian</a> provinces of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#China</a>.

AlexandraToday I’ll give you a report of how we do reconnaissance surveys in the northern forested part of the island, in search for Early Modern and Modern Period remains (mostly Modern Period, access to the northern forests were very limited by law during the <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ry%C5%ABky%C5%AB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryūkyū</a> Kingdom). This is contracted archaeology, so I can’t give you the exact location, nor the nice report photographs that belong to the contractor, you’ll have to cope with my memo snapshots. <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/EADays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EADays</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/archaeodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@archaeodons</a>

Alexandrain <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/okinawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#okinawa</a> international university for the 15th meeting of the <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Ryukyu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ryukyu</a> Funerary Practices Research Group. This time we will talk about funerary practices in the <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Yaeyama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Yaeyama</a>. the hashtag will be <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ryukyufun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ryukyufun</a>

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