#ryukyuan

[folkfashion]

Ryukyuan bride and groom, Japan, by Nest Wedding

#ryukyuan #japan #asia #east asia #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing #folk clothing

[softsoundingsea]

フチャギ Fuchagi

I made Fuchagi, a Ryukyuan (Okinawan) traditional sweet, for the Mid-Autumn Festival last year.

#フチャギ #Fuchagi #Okinawan #Ryukyuan #Food #Okinawan Culture #Mid Autumn Festival #2022 #Okinawan Food

[kemetic-dreams]

How many ethnicities are in Nipon(japan)?

Yamato Japanese 123,900,000

Ryukyuan Japanese1,300,000

Chinese 650,000

Korean 525,000

The Yamato people (大和民族, Yamato minzoku, literally "Yamato ethnicity") or the Wajin (和人, Wajin, 倭, literally "Wa people") is a term to describe the ethnic group that comprises over 98% of the population of Japan. Genetic and anthropometric studies has showed that the Yamato are an admixture of the migratory Kofun and Yayoi, who arrived from mainland East and Southeast Asia via the Korean Peninsula, as well as the indigenous Jōmon that were already living on the Japanese archipelago for thousands of years prior.

It can also refer to the first people that settled in Yamato Province (modern-day Nara Prefecture). Generations of Japanese historians, linguists, and archeologists have debated whether the word is related to the earlier Yamatai (邪馬臺). The Yamato clan set up Japan's first and only dynasty. The clan became the ruling faction in the area, and incorporated native Japanese, Chinese and Korean migrants. The clan leaders also elevated their own belief system that featured ancestor worship into a national religion known as Shinto.

The Ryukyuan people (Okinawan: 琉球民族 (るーちゅーみんずく), romanized: Ruuchuu minzuku or どぅーちゅーみんずく, Duuchuu minzuku, Japanese: 琉球民族/りゅうきゅうみんぞく, romanized: Ryūkyū minzoku, also Lewchewan or Loochooan)[8] are a Japonic-speaking East Asianethnic group native to the Ryukyu Islands, which stretch between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan.[9] Administratively, they live in either the Okinawa Prefecture or the Kagoshima Prefecture within Japan. They speak one of the Ryukyuan languages, considered to be one of the two branches of the Japonic language family, the other being Japanese and its dialects. Hachijō is sometimes considered by linguists to constitute a third branch

#ryukyuan #nippon #nipon #nihon #japan #kemetic dreams #yamato people #asian #east asian #east asians #ethnic diversity

[wearejapanese]

By Yuki Yamaguchi

For Minako Toguchi, every summer would bring on an identity crisis.

As a child growing up in Okinawa, the site of the biggest land battle to take place on Japanese soil during World War II, she was often taken on school trips during summer to war memorials, including Himeyuri Cenotaph in the south of the island where the deaths of more than a hundred schoolgirls who worked as war nurses are commemorated.

But every time she listened to war survivors talk about their memories of the fierce fighting against U.S. military forces, she was made conscious of her skin color -- slightly darker than her peers -- and that she has familial roots on both sides, given that her father, an African American, is a former U.S. soldier."I often asked myself, 'Am I allowed to be here? Am I hurting their feelings?'" said Toguchi, 27, who was born in the United States and moved to Okinawa with her Okinawan mother after her parents' divorce when she was little. "I wondered if the people who I share my roots with were such bad people."

Toguchi is one of many Okinawans of mixed parentage who wrestle with identity issues due to having former or current U.S. military personnel as family members. With close to 100,000 civilians having lost their lives in the fighting on Okinawa -- about half the total death toll there -- resentment toward the concentrated U.S. military presence on the island, which hosts the bulk of U.S. military facilities in Japan, runs deep.

Even half a century after the island's return to Japan from U.S. rule in 1972, Okinawans born with one foreign parent continue to face prejudice and discrimination. Indeed, because of long-lasting tensions between local communities and bases, many believe the level of prejudice is often more blatant than in the rest of Japan.

Local residents have repeatedly asked for the government to alleviate the island's burden of hosting the bases. One of the bases, due to be moved from the middle of a densely populated residential area to another part of the prefecture, has become a focus of protests with calls to move it outside Okinawa altogether.

But Tokyo has largely turned a deaf ear to the demands, recognizing the island's geographical importance for Japan and the United States, its ally, in the face of China's expanding military presence. Their frustrations have been sometimes vented on Okinawans of mixed parentage, who are generally assumed to be related to base personnel even if they are not, experts say. Read more...

https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2022/05/f4293842f394-feature-mixed-race-okinawans-begin-to-find-voice-amid-tensions-over-us-bases.html

#Kyodo News #Yuki Yamaguchi #Mixed Race #Okinawa #Japan #Japanese Imperialism #Okinawan #Ryukyu #Ryukyuan #US Military

[aishiteru-kenshin]

Arcanine | Tsao Shin

Shisa, the lion guardians of Okinawa, have been a source of artistic expression and inspiration for centuries, extending all the way to modern Japanese pop-culture. With a dog-like body and lion's mane, the Pokemon Arcanine is clearly inspired by the mythical Ryukyuan shisa.

#Pokemon #Arcanine #Pocket Monsters #ポケットモンスター #Anime #Fan Art #Ryukyuan #Shisa #Guardian Lion

[shimaplaylist]

Haisai, gusuuyoo. I hope everyone is safe and doing well. I teamed up with Nami Oshiro, a fantastic Shimanchu American artist based in Virginia, to create the first three items in an ongoing effort to raise funds for independent Shimakutuba practitioners and projects.

Many Shimanchu creators and educators are doing the work on their own time and out of their own pockets, so I'm hoping that this (and future fundraisers) can be a small show of support and gratitude.

This 3" sticker, 2.25" button, and 1.25" acrylic pin set features a Ramones logo-inspired design with an open-mouth shiisaa symbolizing the sharing of good things, i.e. our indigenous languages. There are several distinct languages throughout the Ryūkyū Islands (all of which are endangered), so we decided to go with the six regions recognized by UNESCO: Amami, Kunjan (Kunigami), Uchinaa (Okinawa), Myaaku (Miyako), Yaima (Yaeyama), Dunan (Yonaguni).

Please visit the Ko‑fi shop today! All proceeds (minus item production costs and shipping fees) will be donated to individuals/groups and I'll post receipts once the donations are made.

P.S. I'm still selling items through the Shimanchu Dushi-nu-chaa Online Sale, if you're interested in combining shipping.

Shiisaa illustration by Nami Oshiro

- namioshiro.com - inprnt.com/profile/namioshiro - etsy.com/shop/iyasasa - instagram.com/nami_oshiro - twitter.com/namioshiro

#okinawa #okinawan #uchinaanchu #uchinanchu #shimanchu #ruuchuu #loochoo #ryukyu #ryukyuan #shiisaa #shisa #shimakutuba #uchinaaguchi #uchinaguchi #沖縄 #ウチナーンチュ #琉球 #島人 #世界のウチナーンチュ #世界ウチナーンチュ #nami oshiro #art #artwork

[junotter]

I've deleted tiktok off my phone and now mainly use Instagram reels. I get a bunch of content related to Japan (makes sense I'm moving there) but omfg the comments are like the trenches. Some are purely racist to Japanese citizens and others are such Japan dick riders that it's insane.

Anyway recently got a post about a white guy complaining that TOKYO has gotten too "foreign" and that he doesn't want Japan to "lose" their culture. I've got a lot of thoughts on this but nowhere to put them so here they are:

I'm literally losing my mind at how many people think Japan is this orientalist non-westernized country when Japan has westernized itself since the 1890s. Losing my mind at foreigners in Japan complaining that there are more foreigners in Japan and acting like they've been in Japan since before it when they moved there in like 2010.

Saw someone comparing Japan to Hawai'i in how it's losing its culture (truly mindboggling considering what Japan has done to Okinawa) and another guy who's name was literally Noah saying "Americans should keep their bs out of japan no one wants your stupid westernization" like dude ur name is Noah.

Also, no part of America has "westernized" Japan since the early 20th century, and Japan's "westernization" is entirely Japan's own doing for wanting to be in proximity to whiteness. No other culture country or people gets to decide where Japan's culture gets to go, that is solely up to the Japanese people (mind you not the government but the PEOPLE)

Most people obsessed with Japanese culture have never read an actual book on Japan that goes beyond "Japan has shrines that worship the kami or spirits of the world" and "being polite is important as a tourist in Japan". If they did, then they'd know that during the pre-war era and throughout the wartime era, the Japanese government purposefully put out cultural propaganda in order to boost nationalism. They wanted Japan to seem entirely unique and therefore more special than all other Asian countries. This is not to say Japan does not have beautiful cultural traditions that extend centuries, but largely those have been transformed and marketed to Japanese and foreign tourists alike.

Shrines and shrine groups donate and mass support alt-right-wing groups in Japan. The over-politeness culture is part of the awful workplace conditions and suicide rates. Actual Japanese people have spoken to these facts but that does not mean they do not like their home culture. Globalization/modernization will not westernize Japan. Women's rights, LGBT rights, labor rights, and immigrants' rights, will not westernize Japan. They will save Japan.

These Japan-obsessed right-wingers will ignore the hundreds of years of protests and civil rights groups to create an orientalist idea of Japan. None and I mean NONE of those people care about Japan, Japanese culture, or Japanese people, they only care about living out their orientalist fantasies while actual Japanese people living their daily lives are simply background props.

We need to stop pretending Japanese people are not their own people with history, culture, and movements.

Here are just SOME links on Japanese politics not known by most people (please message me if you're interested in these topics or would like more resources):

Nippon Kaigi- Alt Right Religious Group

Japanese Work Culture

Ainu - Indigenous Group of the Lands in the Okhotsk Sea

Ryukuans (Okinawans) - Indigenous Group of the Ryukyu Islands

Scream from the Shadows- A Book on the 60s Feminist Movement in Japan

Chizuko Ueno "Forty Years of Japanese Feminism" - Prominent Japanese Feminist

Burakumin - Lowest "Caste" Group in Japan

Zainichi Koreans - Resident Koreans Who's Families Entered Japan During and After the War

LGBT Rights - LBGT+ Rights Group in Japan

Organizing the Spontaneous - 60s ANPO Movement

Sadly I cannot find the twitter page that often posts modern-day Japanese news that normally is not posted by other news organizations. But if any of you remember it please send me the page so I can add it as I believe it is an important resource. Or just reblog with it!

Look, whether you like or dislike Japan, remember it's a country with people just like anywhere else. Do not dismiss the work activists have done in Japan. Do not say Japan "needs this political movement", instead talk about how Japanese progressive groups need international support and recognition (mind you don't say this about any country, especially largely nonwhite countries!!! you are completely ignoring and rejecting the work millions have put into social change!!! instead talk about those people!!! talk about those movements!!! don't let their efforts be forgotten!!! don't let any government tell you these movements are new!!! THEY AREN'T!!!!). One of the biggest ways we can create change and push away alt-right groups and people from any place is by ruining their image of those places.

Do NOT let the alt-right in Japan convince you Japan is purely homogenous and that Japan is the best country in the world. Do not let the Japanese government erase the Ainu, the Ryukyuan, Immigrants, Zainichi Koreans, LGBTQ+ citizens, women's rights, the Burakumin, the poor, and the communists/progressives of Japan. Do not let ANY country erase that history!

DO NOT LET JAPAN PLAY THE VICTIM TO "WESTERIZATION"

#Japan #Japanese politics #weeb culture #white supremacy #progressive politics #this post got way out of hand and there's still so much to add that i feel bad for leaving things out #anti blackness is something id also like to talk about but i also know there's countless black people sharing their own stories #please feel free to message me if you're interested in further research and information #especially on things like anpo the ainu ryukyuans and burakumin #if anyone is interested i have a massive paper on burakumin political action and history post war i wrote #please dm for more resources!!

[nuanimistdatabase]

Two Super-Cute New Pygmy Squids Discovered Hiding In Japanese Coral Reefs | IFLScience

#squid #pygmy squid #japan #new species #Idiosepius kijimuna #Kodama jujutsu #Ryukyuan Pygmy Squid #Hannan’s Pygmy Squid

[cuchufletapl]

That's not how you say night in Japanese (it's yoru) and Yuru's mom basically says here that her native tongue isn't Japanese, so my guess is that it's a Ryukyuan language. Probably Okinawan, if only because that's the most well-known.

#ryukyuan languages are closely related to japanese but not mutually intelligible with it #in anime and such you'll usually see okinawan specifically being referred to as a dialect or accent. but that's just japanese imperialism #this language group is worryingly endangered as well. also because of japanese imperialism #yomi no tsugai #my original post #manga #reading!

[cobraonthecob]

f1 hot take: queer person here, i'm going to need everyone to stop talking about qatar's abhorrent human rights unless they mention the US is doing the same; queer rights and abortion rights in florida and texas are also being denied. you can still talk about qatar's lack of human rights, but don't act like the US didn't just pull back on abortion rights and queer rights, and attempted to undo ICWA.

one step further, why not criticize the united kingdom for attempting to roll back laws against trans people? or practically any other country for their human rights violations?

what i'm getting at is that you can criticize qatar and saudi arabia for the human rights violations, but don't act like they're the only countries doing it.

#nightfalcon posts #formula 1 #f1 #atp there is no racing ethically every single country has skeletons in the closet #singapore is taking soil from other southeast asian countries in order to make more land for themselves #japan's treatment of the ainu and ryukyuan people is abysmal #i don't even need to say anything about the european countries we all know what's happening #brazil not treating their indigenous population well #i don't even need to list what china is doing #australia isn't a saint either that country is still learning how to treat their indigenous population well

[cauterisen]

kimiko's okinawan roots and heritage are very important to me actually

#❪ if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more ❫ / ooc. #kimiko and the tohomiko family and their mixed japanese and ryukyuan heritage yes yes yes

[uchinaguchishutoku]

ぱーぱーたーぬ　じんぶん✨おばーたちの知恵✨

うちなーぐちぐゆみ10月19日（うらんだぐゆみ2023年12月1日）

うちなーぐゆめー　なーだ　じゅーぐゎち　やいびーしが、うらんだぐゆめー　なー　しわーし　なてぃ　ねーびらんやー。

しむ　しじみとーびーたくとぅ、、、、

はっし！ありくり　なびしちーぬ　まんどーびーたん。

***

旧暦ではまだ10月ですが、新暦ではもう12月になってしまいましたねー。

台所を片付けていたら、、、

はっし！あれこれ鍋敷きがたくさん出てきました。

くれー、むる　しまぬ　ぱーぱーたーが　ちゅくてぃ　くぃみそーちゃる　むん　やいびーんり♩

じこー　いるまんちゃーさーに、あんし　可愛いぐゎー　やる😆

***

これは全部、集落のおばーたちが作ってくださったものらしいです。

カラフルでとっても可愛いですなー😆

くれー　まっかいあらやー　やいびーんり。

くれー、あかばなーから、オレンジばなーから、あんさーに　薔薇🌹ん　あいびーんやー！

うっけーらしーねー、、、、、

***

これはスポンジだそうです。

赤い花、オレンジの花、薔薇🌹もありますねー！

裏返すと、、、、、

はーや！！！薔薇がやーり　うむたしが、アップル🍎 やいびーたん！

ぱーぱーたーぬ　じんぶのー　でーじ😆😆

***

まさか！！！薔薇かなーと思いきや、りんご🍎でしたー！

おばーたちの知恵はすごすぎ😆😆

#うちなー #uchinaaguchi #okinawa #沖縄のおばー #沖縄おばーの知恵 #Uchinaa #Okinawan language #ryukyuan languages #手作り #手作り鍋敷き #手作りスポンジ #手芸ニット

[softsoundingsea]

Thinking more about how the Ryukyuan archipelago is more like many ethnic-cultural groups with similar histories rather than one ethnicity. There's no perfect word but I appreciate that for now, Shimanchu has been used more frequently in place of Okinawan.

As a marginalized group within the sphere of Japan, I feel that we often lean towards seeing our own history through a rose-tinted glass. But the history of our place and space is complicated and the Ryukyuan Kingdom had acts of colonization to islands outside of Uchinaa.

I do find it frustrating that Uchinaaguchi is often referred to as “the Okinawan language” when Shimayumuta, Yambaru-Kutuba, Myaakufutsu, Yaimamuni, Shikamuni, Mēramuni, Teedanmuni, and Dunanmunui also exist? And in contemporary times, what does Uchinaaguchi standardization mean?

I can't speak to how it is in the islands but in the diaspora, I do feel that [we] Uchinaanchu don't really give as much space or conversation to other islands or don't acknowledge how Loochoo/Ryukyu/Uchinaanchu is not an identity that is accepted-used across our archipelago.

I am still in the process of learning and I am grateful to those within the community for sharing their truths, struggles and thoughts in language, identity, and history.

#personal text #uchinaaguchi #uchinaanchu #okinawan #ryukyuan #identity #terminology

[muttakutagawa]

🍼 kunikatai ehehe

local child afflicted by Terminal Can't Make Decisions Juice

i literally already have a comic i wanna draw with him but i gotta get him more supporting cast first to make it work

Send me 🍼 + a ship and I’ll draw/make a fan-child

#his name is a reference to Kunio Yanagita who worked with irl Kunikida and Tayama on the collaborative anthology Jojoshi #hes also adopted which is a reference to the family history of his irl reference #also because adopted families are real families 💪 #hes originally from Okinawa and is Ryukyuan! #oc: Kunio Tayama #slaughterhouse two #im not sure it comes across that well in my sketch but he has dimples

[divorcetual]

I was so right 4 my native american langa HC. btw.

#originally I had it half japanese 1/4 inuk 1/4 cherokee but I might chabge that to 1/4 hopi 1/4 inuk. so I can project more #oughhhh and 2 learn Reki is (presumably) ryukyuan..... they love them for their indigenous swag

[sweetfloatapartment]

OK I FOUND THE ARTICLE WITH THE SOURCE WOOO its not in english but here it is!!! https://www.nintendo.co.jp/interview/av5ja/03.html thank you 小林泰三  on youtube comments lol - it’s this section right here

フウカのボーカルやボイスを担当してくださった方は 奄美民謡の歌い手さんなんですよ。 かたやウツホは、ジャズのテイストもある シンガーソングライターさんが演じてくださいました。

#first officers log #ryukyuan shiver real.......