The #Okinawa Archaeologists Society will hold its monthly meeting tonight at 19:00 at the Prefectural Archaeological Center.
Tonight's comm is "Basic research on Ryukyu pierced coins, presentation of the material available in muséums" by Hiroki Miyagi of Okinawa International University.
Come and hear some numismatic !
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[#]Nago Museum will hold an exhibition about "Nago in the Kaizuka Period" between January 21 and February 22. It is in the entrance hall of the museum and entrance to this exhibition is free. Come and see some archaeology! (museum is closed on mondays and on the 4th thursday of the month)
There is a related conference "Understanding Nago and Okinawa's history through animal bones" on February 1 at 10:00 am. It's free as well, come and hear some archaeozoology!
[#]Okinawa
https://www.city.nago.okinawa.jp/museum/2024120500033/
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[#]OkinawaCity Museum proposes a conference about "Fascinating patterns on pottery, stoneware and porcelain" at 2:00 pm on February 9 in Okinawa City Artistic Hall (that's in the same building as the museum, one floor higher).It's free, come and hear some ceramology !
[#]Okinawa
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[#]Ginoza Museum will be holding an exhibition "Limestone Caves in Ginoza Village" from January 21 to February 9. Entrance in free, come and see some science !
(the museum is closed on Mondays.and for lunch)
There will be a related conference on Febriary 1 at 2:00 pm in Garaman Hall, including "The characteristic of the limestone caves of Ginoza Village", "The animals of Matsuda Cave" and "History and Culture at Matsuda Cave". It's free as well. Come and hear some science.
[#]Okinawa #Geology
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[#]ryufun
it's nice to see all those people i generally see at the prefectural museum conferences but not at the university meetings in the amphitheater.
(the university meetings are public too, it's just that people don't come as easily to universities…)
(and also, they're not advertised by posters in the museum…)
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[#]ryufun
here is the programme:
＊excavations of ryukyuan history, through the funerary practices and artefacts by Hiroki Miyagi
＊the funerary practices culture of Amami by Tatsuhito Sekine
＊people and society in early modern ryukyu seen through funerary inscriptions by Yu Suzuki
＊Ryukyuans seen through their bones by Chiaki Katagiri
＊What tombs represent for nowadays munchus by Motoaki Takei
Noriaki Matsubara and Susumu Asato are invited as commentators.
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i 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 #ryufun , mute it if you don't like tombs.
[#]okinawa #ryukyu
@archaeodons
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Satto (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...
[#]Okinawa #Ryukyu
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we might, or might not, survey King Satto's little brother Kaniman's tomb next February. That's apparently just a problem of budget.
if necessary, i'm perfectly ok to survey it for free on my week-ends 😉
(not sure my company will be happy with that…)
[#]okinawa
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To celebrate the opening of #ChatanMuseum, I wrote a #Wikipedia article about Ireibaru:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireibaru
(all right, all right, it was planned to be written before I knew the museum would open in November. Nevertheless, it can serve as celebration)
[#]Okinawa #Ryukyu #KaizukaPeriod
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wait, maybe somebody just did that, added the bus lines, and that's how they show on the map, i just didn't know because noone had mapped them before ?
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i woke up this morning to see the streets of #naha coloured in red, i thought 「hey #OpenStreetMap is covering #nahamarathon !」but now that i look at it in details, i think it might just be someone who messed up with the bus lines.
(never understood the bus lines myself, i generally just add the bus stops and hope someone else will map the lines)
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i asked the staff if they were going to talk about old tombs or new ones and they said old so i might as well give it a try. i'm number 139 though, and they have a list of invited members too so that i'm not sure i'll have a seat…
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i made it to the tombs symposium but i am not sure that's an archaeology conference… there's noone i know and there are posters of gushiken yoko ?
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You can also type a word in one of the Ryukyuan languages (in katakana) and get définitions in Japanese. There are example sentences and all. They plan to include languages from Ishigaki and Izena afterwards.
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The University of the Ryukyus created a website to search in six different Ryukyuan languages dictionaries, the "Great Ryukyuan Languages Dictionary".
https://ryukyu-lang.lab.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/
https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1477785
[#]Okinawa #Ryukyu #Ryūkyū
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.
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Enkakuji was built in the 15th century to serve as the "funerary temple" (bodaiji) of the Second Shō Dynasty. It was, of course, the largest temple in the kingdom and is registered as a National Historic Site.It used to be a National Treasure, but it burnt during the war (as everything else).
Renovation of the stone walls started in 2002. The reconstruction they started yesterday is the one of the wooden upperstructure of the Sanmon. The main gate (Sōmon) has already been reconstructed in 1968.
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Shuri's got all the hype, but we're reconstructing #Enkakuji as well. Just…slowly.
[#]Okinawa #Ryukyu #Ryūkyū
https://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/entry-3682543.html
https://newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/1575467
https://www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1478496
Rough translation: They started the reconstruction of the Sanmon gate of Enkakuji Temple (next to Shuri castle) yesterday. This has been planned since 2014 and at last this year they started to build the first level. They plan to build a bit of it every year and finish it in 2027 (and open it to the public in 2028).
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When I started editing #wikipedia a few months ago, several people told me "you won't last long, the Japanese imperialist lobby is strong on wikipedia, they'll make it so hard for you to post anything related to #Ryukyu history or archaeology that you'll just get tired and leave". I won't leave yet, but I can understand they all got discouraged.
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I suppose I'll have to go to the Tea House, again, and ask what's wrong with the article, again, and another moderator will say "hey nothing's wrong, I'll approve the article now", again. I'm not sure I have the spoons tonight. #wikipedia
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