Okinawa directory

Industry & Tech ／ Food & Drink 43 entries

• Kamaboko no Sanmatsu

  かまぼこの三松
  Okinawa ／ Fish paste products & manufacturing

  Kamaboko of Okinawa. It is characteristically made by frying, and some kinds have rice rolled inside.

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• Donan Distillery

  どなん酒造
  Okinawa ／ Hanazake & Yonaguni Island

  Donan Distillery on Yonaguni Island. It makes hanazake with 60 percent alcohol. Hanazake is permitted only at the 3 distilleries of Yonaguni.

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• Masahiro Distillery

  まさひろ酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & factory tours

  Masahiro Distillery in Itoman. The factory can be toured.

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• Okinawa Craft Beer

  オキナワクラフトビール
  Okinawa ／ Local brewing

  Craft beer of Okinawa. It is brewed using local ingredients.

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• Okiham Chubu Factory

  オキハム中部工場
  Okinawa ／ Meat processing & manufacturing

  The Chubu Factory of Okiham. It processes meat.

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• Orion Beer Nago Brewery

  オリオンビール名護工場
  Okinawa ／ Beer & factory tours

  Orion Beer in Nago. The brewery can be toured, and it makes a light taste suited to the climate of Okinawa.

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• Sun Foods Okinawa Soba Factory

  サン食品の沖縄そば工場
  Okinawa ／ Noodle making & food manufacturing

  Sun Foods in Okinawa. It makes noodles for Okinawa soba.

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• Nanpo Tsusho

  ナンポー通商
  Okinawa ／ Beverages & local manufacturing

  Nanpo Tsusho in Okinawa. It makes Okinawan souvenir sweets.

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• Helios Distillery

  ヘリオス酒造
  Okinawa ／ Craft beer & rum

  Helios Distillery in Nago. It makes craft beer and rum.

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• Kumesen Distillery

  久米仙酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & distilling

  Kumesen Distillery in Naha. It distills awamori.

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• Iheya Distillery and Sugar Making

  伊平屋酒造所と製糖
  Okinawa ／ Brown sugar and awamori & remote islands

  A distillery on Iheya Island. It makes awamori from rice koji.

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• Yaesen Distillery

  八重泉酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Yaeyama

  Yaesen Distillery on Ishigaki Island. It makes the awamori of Yaeyama.

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• Sakimoto Distillery

  咲元酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & aged kusu

  Sakimoto Distillery in Shuri. It makes kusu, aged awamori.

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• Kokusen Awamori

  国泉泡盛
  Okinawa ／ Hanazake & Yonaguni Island

  Kokusen Awamori on Yonaguni Island. It distills hanazake.

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• Taragawa

  多良川
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & underground aging

  Taragawa on Miyakojima. It ages kusu in an underground cave.

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• Miyanohana

  宮の華
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Izena Island

  Miyanohana on Izena Island. It distills on a remote island.

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• Miyako Sugar Manufacturing

  宮古製糖
  Okinawa ／ Cane sugar & remote-island sugar making

  Sugar manufacturing on Miyakojima. Sugarcane is pressed on a remote island.

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• Sakimoto Shuzosho Distillery

  崎元酒造所
  Okinawa ／ Hanazake & Yonaguni Island

  Sakimoto Shuzosho on Yonaguni Island. It makes hanazake.

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• Okashigoten Yomitan Main Store

  御菓子御殿読谷本店
  Okinawa ／ Purple sweet potato sweets & factory tours

  Okashigoten in Yomitan. Visitors can watch the process of making beni-imo tarts.

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• Chuko Distillery

  忠孝酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Nanban jars

  Chuko Distillery in Tomigusuku. It fires its own nanban jars and ages awamori in those jars.

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• Shinzato Distillery

  新里酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & one of the oldest distilleries

  Shinzato Distillery in Okinawa City. Said to have been founded in 1846, it is regarded as the oldest distillery in the prefecture.

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• Ikehara Distillery

  池原酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Ishigaki Island

  Ikehara Distillery on Ishigaki Island. It makes awamori in a small distillery.

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• Okinohikari Distillery

  沖之光酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Miyako Island

  Okinohikari Distillery on Miyakojima. It distills on the island.

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• Okinawa Soba Noodle Making

  沖縄そば製麺業
  Okinawa ／ Noodle making & food culture

  Noodle making for Okinawa soba. The noodles are made from wheat flour alone, boiled and then coated with oil. No buckwheat flour is used.

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• Okinawa Coca-Cola Bottling Urasoe Plant

  沖縄コカ・コーラボトリング浦添工場
  Okinawa ／ Beverages & bottling

  A Coca-Cola plant in Urasoe. It bottles beverages.

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• Okinawa Ham Sogo Shokuhin

  沖縄ハム総合食品
  Okinawa ／ Meat processing & Okinawan food

  Okinawa Ham Sogo Shokuhin. It is responsible for the meat processing of Okinawa, such as pork luncheon meat.

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• Okinawa Meiji Milk Products

  沖縄明治乳業
  Okinawa ／ Dairy products & local dairy farming

  Meiji Milk Products of Okinawa. It makes dairy products from the dairy farming of the island.

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• Okinawa Prefecture Distillers Association

  沖縄県酒造組合
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & production-area cooperative

  The prefecture's distillers association. It brings together 46 distilleries and protects the labeling and quality of awamori.

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• Okinawa Prefecture Brown Sugar Cooperative

  沖縄県黒砂糖協同組合
  Okinawa ／ Brown sugar & production-area cooperative

  The prefecture's brown sugar cooperative. It brings together the non-centrifugal sugar made on eight remote islands.

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• Okinawa Sugar Manufacturing

  沖縄製糖
  Okinawa ／ Cane sugar & sugar-making technology

  A sugar company that makes centrifugal sugar from Okinawan sugarcane.

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• Tomari Iyumachi

  泊いゆまち
  Okinawa ／ Seafood distribution & fish market

  Tomari Iyumachi in Naha. A market dealing in tuna and other fish from nearby waters.

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• Hateruma Sugar Manufacturing

  波照間製糖
  Okinawa ／ Brown sugar & remote-island sugar making

  Sugar manufacturing on Hateruma Island. Kokuto brown sugar is made on the southernmost inhabited island of Japan.

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• Kyuyo Sugar Manufacturing

  球陽製糖
  Okinawa ／ Non-centrifugal sugar & brown sugar

  Kyuyo Sugar Manufacturing on Kumejima. It makes kokuto brown sugar, a non-centrifugal sugar from which the molasses is not separated.

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• Ryukyu Awamori

  琉球泡盛
  Okinawa ／ Spirits & black koji mold

  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

  瑞泉酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Shuri Sanka

  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

  石川酒造場
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & black koji

  Ishikawa Distillery in Naha. It prepares its mash with black koji.

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• Itoman Fisheries Cooperative

  糸満漁業協同組合
  Okinawa ／ Fisheries & fishing port distribution

  The fisheries cooperative of Itoman. It is responsible for the fishing port and distribution in a place with a tradition of drive-in net fishing.

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• Shonan Sugar Manufacturing

  翔南製糖
  Okinawa ／ Cane sugar & sugar making

  Shonan Sugar Manufacturing on Minamidaito Island. It carries on sugar manufacturing as the key industry of the island.

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• Kikunotsuyu Distillery

  菊之露酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Miyako Island

  Kikunotsuyu Distillery on Miyakojima. It prepares its mash with the water of Miyako.

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• Iriomote Sugar Industry

  西表糖業
  Okinawa ／ Brown sugar & island industry

  The sugar industry of Iriomote Island. Kokuto brown sugar is made as an industry of the island.

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• Seifuku Distillery

  請福酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Yaeyama distilling

  Seifuku Distillery on Ishigaki Island. It distills in Yaeyama.

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• Shikina Distillery

  識名酒造
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & Shuri distilling

  Shikina Distillery in Shuri. It continues to distill in Shuri.

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• Takamine Distillery

  高嶺酒造所
  Okinawa ／ Awamori & direct-fired distilling

  Takamine Distillery on Ishigaki Island. It distills over a direct flame.

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Industry & Tech ／ Crafts 31 entries

• Bingata Cooperative Association

  びんがた事業協同組合
  Okinawa ／ Stencil dyeing & production-area cooperative

  The production-area association for bingata. It carries on the techniques of stencils and pigments.

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• Yachimun no Sato

  やちむんの里
  Okinawa ／ Climbing kilns & pottery district

  Yachimun no Sato in Yomitan. Potteries that moved from Tsuboya are gathered here and fire a shared climbing kiln.

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• Sanshin

  三線
  Okinawa ／ Musical instruments & wood and leather work

  A three-stringed instrument with snakeskin stretched over the body. There are seven types of neck shape, and the sound and the price change with the type.

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• Yonaguni Town Traditional Crafts Center

  与那国町伝統工芸館
  Okinawa ／ Textiles & island crafts

  The traditional crafts center of Yonaguni Town. It exhibits the textiles of the island.

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• Yonaguni Textiles

  与那国織
  Okinawa ／ Silk and cotton weaving & nationally designated craft

  Textiles of Yonaguni Island. Four types are woven, including hanaori, dutati and kagannubu.

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• Kumejima Tsumugi

  久米島紬
  Okinawa ／ Silk textiles & nationally designated craft

  Tsumugi of Kumejima. It is dyed with the island's plants and mud, and a single weaver carries it through from thread to bolt. An Important Intangible Cultural Property.

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• Kumejima Tsumugi no Sato Yuimaru-kan

  久米島紬の里ユイマール館
  Okinawa ／ Tsumugi & making exhibition

  Yuimaru-kan on Kumejima. It exhibits the making of tsumugi and accepts visitors for hands-on experience.

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• Yaeyama Minsa

  八重山ミンサー
  Okinawa ／ Obi cloth & nationally designated craft

  Minsa of Yaeyama. A sash in which kasuri motifs of five and four are set side by side, carrying the meaning 'forever and ever'.

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• Yaeyama Jofu

  八重山上布
  Okinawa ／ Ramie & nationally designated craft

  Jofu of Ishigaki and Taketomi. Ramie is woven and finished by umi-zarashi, in which the cloth is soaked in seawater and bleached in the sun.

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• Haebaru Hanaori

  南風原花織
  Okinawa ／ Figured weaving & nationally designated craft

  Hanaori of Haebaru. Patterns are woven by the float-weave technique. A production area in the south of the main island of Okinawa.

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• Tsuboya Ware

  壺屋焼
  Okinawa ／ Pottery & nationally designated craft

  Pottery of Tsuboya, Naha. Arayachi is unglazed and joyachi is glazed. It is known for shisa and dachibin flasks.

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• Okuhara Glass Factory

  奥原硝子製造所
  Okinawa ／ Recycled glass & hand blowing

  Okuhara Glass Factory in Naha. A hand-blown glass workshop that has continued since after the war.

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• Miyako Jofu

  宮古上布
  Okinawa ／ Ramie & nationally designated craft

  Jofu of Miyakojima. Ramie is split with the fingernails and spun by hand, and fine cross-shaped kasuri is woven. An Important Intangible Cultural Property.

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• Jofu Exhibit of the Miyakojima City Museum

  宮古島市総合博物館の上布展示
  Okinawa ／ Ramie & textile history

  The Miyakojima City Museum. It houses the tools of Miyako jofu and the history of the textile.

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• Onna Glass Studio

  恩納ガラス工房
  Okinawa ／ Blown glass & workshop

  A glass studio in Onna. It makes blown glass.

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• Ryukyu Bingata

  琉球びんがた
  Okinawa ／ Stencil dyeing & nationally designated craft

  A stencil dyeing in which a stencil is laid down, pigments are applied and colors are layered. There is also aigata, dyed with indigo alone. It was worn by the royalty and gentry of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

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• Ryukyu Glass

  琉球ガラス
  Okinawa ／ Blown glass & recycled glass

  It began after the war by melting down bottles discarded by the US military. Thick vessels that hold bubbles within them, they are now made from recycled glass.

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• Ryukyu Glass Village

  琉球ガラス村
  Okinawa ／ Glass & factory tours

  Ryukyu Glass Village in Itoman. Visitors can watch the process of blowing recycled glass and can also try it.

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• Snakeskin Processing for the Ryukyu Shamisen

  琉球三味線の蛇皮加工
  Okinawa ／ Leather & instrument materials

  The processing of the snakeskin stretched on the sanshin. Python skin is tanned and stretched.

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• Ryukyu Lacquerware

  琉球漆器
  Okinawa ／ Lacquerwork & nationally designated craft

  Lacquerware of Ryukyu. On a base of deigo wood, it is decorated with raden, in which shell is inlaid, and tsuikin, in which lacquer is built up in relief.

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• Stencil Carving for Ryukyu Bingata

  琉球紅型の型紙彫り
  Okinawa ／ Paper stencils & carving techniques

  Stencil carving for bingata. Fine patterns are cut with a small knife using a thrusting cut.

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• Ryukyu Kasuri

  琉球絣
  Okinawa ／ Kasuri weaving & dyeing and weaving

  Kasuri of Ryukyu. Threads are bound and resist-dyed, and geometric kasuri is woven. More than 600 designs are recorded.

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• Chibana Hanaori

  知花花織
  Okinawa ／ Figured weaving & nationally designated craft

  Hanaori of Chibana, Okinawa City. The warp threads are floated to bring out the pattern. It died out once and was later restored.

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• Ishigaki City Traditional Crafts Center

  石垣市伝統工芸館
  Okinawa ／ Textiles & dyeing experience

  The traditional crafts center of Ishigaki City. Visitors can try Yaeyama jofu and minsa.

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• Yomitanzan Minsa

  読谷山ミンサー
  Okinawa ／ Obi cloth & figured weaving

  Minsa of Yomitan. A figured weave woven as obi cloth.

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• Yomitanzan Ware Kita-gama Kiln

  読谷山焼北窯
  Okinawa ／ Climbing kiln & shared kiln

  Kita-gama in Yomitan. Four master potters share the use of a single climbing kiln.

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• Yomitanzan Hanaori

  読谷山花織
  Okinawa ／ Figured weaving & nationally designated craft

  A figured weave of Yomitan. Threads are floated to weave out patterns like geometric flowers. It died out once and was revived after the war.

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• Naha Traditional Textile Association

  那覇伝統織物事業協同組合
  Okinawa ／ Textiles & passing on techniques

  The traditional textile association of Naha. It passes weaving techniques on to the next generation.

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• Naha City Traditional Crafts Center

  那覇市伝統工芸館
  Okinawa ／ Crafts & making experience

  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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• Shuri Textiles

  首里織
  Okinawa ／ Silk textiles & nationally designated craft

  Textiles of the royal government woven in Shuri. They have a number of techniques woven nowhere else, such as hanakura-ori and doton-ori.

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• Shuri Textile Cooperative Association

  首里織物協同組合
  Okinawa ／ Textiles & production-area cooperative

  The textile association of Shuri. It carries on techniques handed down from the royal government, such as hanakura-ori and doton-ori.

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Industry & Tech ／ Manufacturing & Technology 4 entries

• Blue Seal Makiminato Main Store Factory

  ブルーシール牧港本店工場
  Okinawa ／ Frozen desserts & manufacturing

  Blue Seal in Urasoe. It makes ice cream high in milk fat that originated with the US military.

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• Nanto Shuzosho Habu Museum Park

  南都酒造所ハブ博物公園
  Okinawa ／ Liqueurs & snake venom research

  Nanto Shuzosho in Nanjo. It studies habu venom and makes habu liquor.

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• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST)

  沖縄科学技術大学院大学OIST
  Okinawa ／ Basic science & international research

  OIST in Onna. A graduate university that has no undergraduate faculties and operates entirely in English. It ranks among the top in the world for the quality of its papers.

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• Bashofu Hall

  芭蕉布会館
  Okinawa ／ Fiber banana & passing on techniques

  The Bashofu Hall in Ogimi. It shows the process from itobasho to cloth.

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Industry & Tech ／ Services & Others 3 entries

• Kumejima Deep Seawater Development

  久米島海洋深層水開発
  Okinawa ／ Deep ocean water & multiple uses

  The deep seawater of Kumejima. It is drawn from a depth of 612 meters and used in multiple stages for power generation, aquaculture and agriculture.

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• Kijoka Bashofu

  喜如嘉の芭蕉布
  Okinawa ／ Fiber banana & Important Intangible Cultural Property

  Bashofu of Kijoka, Ogimi Village. Itobasho is grown for three years and its fiber is taken. One bolt of cloth requires 200 stalks. An Important Intangible Cultural Property.

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• Ishigakijima Sugar Manufacturing

  石垣島製糖
  Okinawa ／ Cane sugar & Yaeyama

  Sugar manufacturing on Ishigaki Island. The sugarcane of Yaeyama is pressed.

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Studios & Kilns ／ Crafts 14 entries

• Sabani Boats

  サバニと造船の技術
  Okinawa / Itoman ／ Crafts & pottery / Architecture

  Planks sewn together with cord and bamboo pegs; because it can be re-sewn when it splits, it went far out to sea.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Sanshin

  三線
  Okinawa / Naha ／ Crafts & pottery

  The Chinese sanxian became the sanshin here and the shamisen in Japan; its neck has seven named forms.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Kumejima Tsumugi

  久米島紬
  Okinawa / Kumejima ／ Dyeing & weaving

  One person carries the whole process from silkworm to finished cloth, dyeing with island plants and fixing in mud.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Yaeyama Minsa

  八重山ミンサー
  Okinawa / Ishigaki ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Rows of five-square and four-square kasuri motifs are read as a pun, itsu (five) no yo (four) made mo, meaning forever and ever. It is the pattern of the sash a woman gave to a man. A national traditional craft.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Kijoka Banana Fibre Cloth

  喜如嘉の芭蕉布
  Okinawa / Ogimi ／ Dyeing & weaving

  The village grows the plants, strips the fibre, splits it, spins and weaves - two hundred stems for a single bolt of cloth.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Miyako Jofu Ramie Cloth

  宮古上布
  Okinawa / Miyakojima ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Ramie split by fingernail into thread finer than hair, woven and then beaten with mallets to a sheen; over a year for one bolt.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Ryukyu Glass

  琉球ガラス
  Okinawa / Itoman ／ Crafts & pottery

  It began with melting down bottles the US military threw away; the bubbles the impurities caused were kept as the point.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Ryukyu Lacquerware

  琉球漆器
  Okinawa / Naha ／ Lacquer art

  Its tsuikin technique - lacquer kneaded with pigment and applied like clay - exists nowhere else; the court ran the workshops.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Ryukyu Bingata

  琉球紅型
  Okinawa / Naha ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Stencilled paste resist with pigment rubbed in - a meeting of Chinese, Southeast Asian and Japanese dyeing, in colours built for southern light.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Arayachi and Jouyachi

  荒焼と上焼
  Okinawa / Naha ／ Crafts & pottery

  Storage jars are left unglazed and tableware glazed - the use deciding the firing, with nothing in between.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Yomitanzan Ware and the Pottery Village

  読谷山焼とやちむんの里
  Okinawa / Yomitan ／ Crafts & pottery / Mingei folk craft

  A village potters moved to in order to escape the smoke problems in Naha. Kinjo Jiro, a Living National Treasure, built the first kiln here; today 19 workshops are gathered, with shared climbing kilns and more.

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• Yomitanzan Hanaui

  読谷山花織
  Okinawa / Yomitan ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Geometric flowers raised by floating threads; the craft died out and was reconstructed in 1964 from old cloth and older memories.

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• Jiro Kinjo and Okinawan Mingei

  金城次郎と沖縄の民藝
  Okinawa / Yomitan ／ Crafts & pottery / Mingei folk craft

  Known for fish and shrimp cut in line; found by the mingei leaders, he became Okinawa's first Living National Treasure.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Shuri Textiles

  首里織
  Okinawa / Naha ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Woven for the royal house; one of its weaves could be worn only by the queen and princesses.

  Details

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