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.... J. Brill. 1961, v. 49, 1-3. Books ANDERSON, GEORGE LINCOLN, ed. Masterpieces of Guam and the Ryukyu Islands the Orient. General editor: Maynard Mack. New York, Norton [1961] 396 p. MAHAVYUPATTI. Peutaglot dictionary of Buddhist terms in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Manchurian, Mongolian and Chinese. Edited...

...Robert K. Sakai Ryukyu: A Bibliographical Guide to Okinawan Studies . By Shunzo Sakamaki . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1963 . xv , 353 . Appendices, Indices. $10.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 478 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Japanese...

... of the Ming dynasty which would not allow Chinese to trade with Japanese. The link between Satsuma and China was die Ryukyu kingdom. Through the Ryukyu Islanders, the Shimazu daimyo obtained valuable Chinese commodities which were then sold for a profit to other parts of Japan. This commercial activity...

...Shunzō Sakamaki Abstract From about 1373 to 1570, or for nearly two centuries, the kings of Ryukyu engaged in a prosperous and active trade between East and Southeast Asia. Several hundred Ryukyuan ships voyaged to Southeast Asian ports, from Siam to Patani, Malacca, Sumatra, Java, and elsewhere...

... ,” Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan , 2nd. ser., XI ( 1934 ), 151 – 239 , and XIV (1937), 209–78; Reischauer Robert Karl , Early Japanese History , Part A ( 405 pp., Princeton University Press , 1937 ). 27 Cf. Sakamaki , Ryukyu , 28 – 39 . 26 Cf...

...Erika Kaneko Archaeology of the Ryukyu Islands . By Richard J. Pearson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1969 . xiii, 137 pp. Plates, Appendices, Sources, Index. $6.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 * Kidder, J. E., the Jômon Pottery...

...Shunzo Sakamaki The Voyage of the Alceste to the Ryukyus and Southeast Asia . By John M'Leod , with an Introduction by Shannon McCune . Rutland, Vermont, and Tokyo, Japan : Charles E. Tuttle Company , 1963 . xxviii, 288. Maps, Illustrations. $5.00. Copyright © The Association...

...Karen A. Smyers Goddesses, Priestesses, and Sisters: Mind, Gender, and Power in the Monarchic Tradition of the Ryukyus . By Arne Røkkum . Oslo : Scandinavian University Press , 1998 . xviii, 281 pp. $43.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 226...

... trading centres. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 1 See Shinen Tomimura , “ Ryūkyū ni okem Min, Nihon to no kankei ” [“Ming-Japanese relations in the Ryukyus”], Rekishi Kyōiku , VIII (Oct. 1960 ), 13 – 14 . 2 Kobata Atsushi, Chūsei Nantō...

... to wide perspectives of time and space, they have largely transcended prejudices of race or time or class. Their guides are diverse, and they feel empathy and solidarity with their colleagues across all national boundaries" (Riesman, 1954: 118). DONALD M. SEEKJNS University of the Ryukyus List...

.... Off. 28 p. Report year ends June 30. a survey in the Ryukyu Islands. SWJA 10 (1954), 255-67. KOSKINEN, AARNE A. Missionary influence as a political factor in the Pacific Islands. Helsinki, Academia Scientiarum Fennicae, 1953. 263 p. illus. Thesis Helsingfors University. RYUKYU ISLANDS (U. S. CIVIL...

...Kenneth R. Robinson Abstract In diplomatic settings, the King of Chosŏn Korea showed different faces to different people between 1392 and 1592. The monarch looked toward the Emperor of Ming China as a status inferior and acted as a status equal with rulers of Japan and Ryukyu. In a recasting...

... on the rise. This volume the product of a symposium held in Bonn in 1994 reflects that new-found interest, but at the same time it reveals that European engagement with Ryukyu (comprising modern Okinawa prefecture and the islands south of Kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture) has a long history traceable, in fact...

... this was a struggle to define the nature of the Meiji Restoration—how radical would it be—and to decide who would control the politics of Japan's renovation, but intermixed with these domestic issues were several questions of foreign policy. To Japan's leaders, the Ryukyus, Taiwan, and Sakhalin were as important...

... (Oikawa 2016 : 159; Aguni 2016 : 140–41). This article takes a different tack by situating the events of 1913 within a longer trajectory of changes experienced by Okinawa's female ritualists following Japan's formal colonization of the Ryukyu Islands in 1879. Specifically, this article argues...

... of the above-mentioned defects, this book is recommended for the layman who wishes to learn the brief history of Japanese costume and its appearance, since this will entertain him with numerous colorful pictures and resourceful interpretations. TOSHIHIKO SATO The University of Kansas Ryukyu: A Bibliographical...

...), 145-166. VOEGLIN, C. F. and F. M. VOEGLIN. Languages of the world: Sino-Tibetan, fascicle one. Anthropological linguistics 6, no. 3 (Mar. 1964), 1-109. Ryukyu Islands Article! Periodicals Du PLESSIX, FRANCINE. FOCUS on the Far East. Konnichi no Ryukyu (Ryukyus today), v. 8. Art in America 52, no. 3...

.... art: mirrors of Indian culture. Delhi, PEARL, MARIAN A. American oppression in Manager of Publications, 1955. vii, 125 p. Okinawa. Contemporary issues 7, no 25 XXV plates. (India. Archaeological (Oct./Nov. 1955), 17-24. survey. Memoir no. 73) PFAU, E. Teacher education programs in the Ryukyu Islands...

..., anthropologist Tsuboi Shōgorō, pronounced that his goal was to showcase the various races of the world. 3 Many observers, however, pointed out that no Japanese or Westerners were on display ( Nihon , May 4, 1903 ; Ryūkyū shinpō , April 7, 1903 ). The display featured only those people deemed barbaric...

..., JOHN. The voyage of the Alceste to the Ryukyus and Southeast Asia. With an introd. by Shannon McCune. Rutland, Vt., Tuttle [1963] xxviii, 288 p. illus., port., maps, charts. "Complete and unabridged reprint . . . made by photo-offset from the first edition of 1817." Original t.p. reads: Narrative...