OkinawaNature & SceneryIshigaki
Kabira Bay
The colour of the water changes with the hour. Black pearls are farmed here, so swimming is not allowed.
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OkinawaNature & SceneryNakijin
Kouri Island
A bridge 1,960 metres long crosses the sea. The island carries a Ryukyuan version of the Adam and Eve legend.
OkinawaNature & Scenery
OkinawaFestivals
OkinawaArchitectureNaha
Bingata & Yachimun
Stencil dyeing that carries the colours of the south, and the pottery of Tsuboya. Kilns line Yachimun Street.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum
Walled in limestone like a Ryukyuan castle, holding both the kingdom's record and the systematic collection of postwar Okinawan art.
OkinawaArt & CraftsGinowan
Sakima Art Museum
A private museum on land reclaimed from a US base; its roof stair splits into six steps and twenty-three, for the 23rd of June.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Tsuboya Pottery Street
The quarter where the kingdom gathered all its kilns; it escaped the war, and workshops still line the paved street.
OkinawaMuseumsNaha
Tsuboya Pottery Museum
A kiln found during construction was left in place and built around, shown underground beneath the galleries.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Bingata
Stencilled paste resist with pigment rubbed in - a meeting of Chinese, Southeast Asian and Japanese dyeing, in colours built for southern light.
Naha
Shuri Textiles
Woven for the royal house; one of its weaves could be worn only by the queen and princesses.
OkinawaArt & CraftsNaha
Ryukyu Lacquerware
Its tsuikin technique - lacquer kneaded with pigment and applied like clay - exists nowhere else; the court ran the workshops.
OkinawaArt & Crafts
OkinawaArchitectureNaha
Kinjocho Stone Path
Part of a royal highway; 238 metres survived the war, walled in stone between great trees.
OkinawaArchitectureKitanakagusuku
Nakamura Family Residence
One of the few gentry houses to survive the war intact, its walls and windbreak trees complete against the typhoons.
Yomitan
Yomitanzan Ware and the Pottery Village
Potters left Naha for this village over smoke restrictions; a Living National Treasure built the first kiln, and nineteen studios are now gathered here, with shared climbing kilns and more.
Yomitan
Yomitanzan Hanaui
Geometric flowers raised by floating threads; the craft died out and was reconstructed in 1964 from old cloth and older memories.
OkinawaArt & CraftsŌgimi
Kijoka Banana Fibre Cloth
The village grows the plants, strips the fibre, splits it, spins and weaves - two hundred stems for a single bolt of cloth.
OkinawaArt & CraftsItoman
Ryukyu Glass
It began with melting down bottles the US military threw away; the bubbles the impurities caused were kept as the point.
OkinawaMuseumsItoman
Himeyuri Peace Museum
Founded by the surviving students themselves, who gathered the testimony and wrote the wall texts in their own words.
OkinawaArt & CraftsItoman
Cornerstone of Peace
Over 240,000 names cut into folding stone walls - carved without dividing by nationality, uniform, or side.
OkinawaArchitectureNago
Nago City Hall
Built to work by wind rather than air-conditioning, with 56 shisa on its walls - each named by a citizen.
OkinawaArchitectureTonaki
Tonaki Island Village
House plots are dug a metre below the lane to duck the typhoons - the whole village sunk into the ground.