Ryūkyū

Ryūkyū

1. Alternative spelling of Ryukyu
   • 2001, John Lie, Multiethnic Japan‎, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:

     Ryūkyū is itself an extended archipelago, and geographic dispersion sustained considerable linguistic divergence and cultural differences among the islands (Matsumori 1995:30-31).

   • 2013, Hiroi Eiko, “The Creation of Exotic Space in the Miyako-odori: 'Ryūkyū' and 'Chōsen'”, in Hugh De Ferranti Alison Tokita, editors, Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond‎, Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:

     The Ryūkyū performing arts entered the Japanese mainland through performances by artists from Ryūkyū, after which they developed in new directions distinct from their origins.

   • 2021 November 19, Dan Nakasone, “Featured Story – GETTING TO THE ROOT OF BENI IMO”, in The Hawaiʻi Herald‎, archived from the original on 28 January 2022:

     According to George Kerr’s book, “Okinawa, The History of an Island People,” beni imo was brought to Okinawa in 1606 by Noguni Sōkan, who was stationed at a Ryūkyū (Okinawa) trading post in the southern coastal district of the Fukien Province, China.[...]On June 19, 1615, Richard Cook, the English trader at Hirako, recorded in his diary that he planted the first potatoes from Ryūkyū in Japan. According to a document, “History of Okinawa,” prepared by Ijichi Sadaka in 1878, a Japanese named Ryuiemon brought the sweet potato from Ryūkyū to Yamakawa Village in Satsuma in southern Kyüshü between 1665 to 1675.

Ryūkyū

1. Rōmaji transcription of りゅうきゅう