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Naha Traditional Textile Association
The traditional textile association of Naha. It passes weaving techniques on to the next generation.
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Okinawa Prefectural Craft Promotion Center
The prefecture's craft promotion center. It provides techniques in dyeing and weaving, ceramics and lacquer art to companies.
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Naha City Traditional Crafts Center
The traditional crafts center of Naha. It brings together bingata, Shuri textiles, Tsuboya ware, lacquerware and glass under one roof, and visitors can try making them.
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Tsuboya Pottery Museum
The Tsuboya Pottery Museum in Naha. It conveys the difference between arayachi and joyachi and the history of the production area.
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Yachimun no Sato
Yachimun no Sato in Yomitan. Potteries that moved from Tsuboya are gathered here and fire a shared climbing kiln.
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Yomitanzan Ware Kita-gama Kiln
Kita-gama in Yomitan. Four master potters share the use of a single climbing kiln.
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Okuhara Glass Factory
Okuhara Glass Factory in Naha. A hand-blown glass workshop that has continued since after the war.
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Bingata Cooperative Association
The production-area association for bingata. It carries on the techniques of stencils and pigments.
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Stencil Carving for Ryukyu Bingata
Stencil carving for bingata. Fine patterns are cut with a small knife using a thrusting cut.
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Kumejima Tsumugi no Sato Yuimaru-kan
Yuimaru-kan on Kumejima. It exhibits the making of tsumugi and accepts visitors for hands-on experience.
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Jofu Exhibit of the Miyakojima City Museum
The Miyakojima City Museum. It houses the tools of Miyako jofu and the history of the textile.
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Ishigaki City Traditional Crafts Center
The traditional crafts center of Ishigaki City. Visitors can try Yaeyama jofu and minsa.
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Yonaguni Town Traditional Crafts Center
The traditional crafts center of Yonaguni Town. It exhibits the textiles of the island.
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Haebaru Town Haebaru Culture Center
The culture center of Haebaru. It deals with hanaori and with Haebaru's memories of the war.
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Okinawa Prefectural Archaeological Center
The prefecture's buried cultural properties center. It preserves and studies objects excavated from gusuku and shell mounds.
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Urasoe Art Museum
The Urasoe Art Museum. It is the only art museum in Japan that specializes in collecting Ryukyu lacquerware.
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Ryukyu Awamori
Rice is steamed, the mash is prepared with Thai rice and black koji, and it is distilled in a pot still. Black koji produces citric acid and keeps the mash from spoiling even in the heat.
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Zuisen Distillery
Zuisen Distillery in Shuri. It descends from the distilling district licensed by the royal government, known as Shuri Sanka.
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Ishikawa Distillery
Ishikawa Distillery in Naha. It prepares its mash with black koji.
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Chuko Distillery
Chuko Distillery in Tomigusuku. It fires its own nanban jars and ages awamori in those jars.