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*''Japanese'': 苗城川 ''(Naeshirogawa)''

*''Japanese'': 苗城川 ''(Naeshirogawa)''

Naeshirogawa is a village in Higashi-ichirai, Hioki district, [[Kagoshima prefecture]], which in the [[Edo period]] was home to a community of potters descended from some 70<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Kei, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 227.</ref> Korean ceramics experts forcibly taken from Korea to Japan during [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.

Naeshirogawa is a village in Higashi-ichirai, Hioki district, [[Kagoshima prefecture]], which in the [[Edo period]] was home to a community of potters descended from some 70<ref>Ono Masako, Tomita Chinatsu, Kanna Keiko, Taguchi Megumi, "Shiryô shôkai Kishi Akimasa bunko Satsuyû kikô," ''Shiryôhenshûshitsu kiyô'' 31 (2006), 227.</ref> Korean ceramics experts forcibly taken from Korea to Japan during [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.

The community soon established their own shrine, called [[Gyokusan Shrine]]<!--玉山神社-->, where Korean-style worship and rituals could take place.<ref>Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.</ref>

The community soon established their own shrine, called [[Gyokusan Shrine]]<!--玉山神社-->, where Korean-style worship and rituals could take place.<ref>Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.</ref>

==References==

==References==

*Kurushima Hiroshi, et al., ''Satsuma Chôsen tôkô　mura no yonhyaku nen'', Iwanami Shoten (2014), v.

*Kurushima Hiroshi, et al., ''Satsuma Chôsen tôkô　mura no yonhyaku nen'', Iwanami Shoten (2014), v.

*Plutschow, Herbert. ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Global Oriental, 2006. pp75-88.

*Herbert Plutschow, ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Global Oriental, 2006. pp75-88.

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[[Category:Edo Period]]

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[[Category:Cities and Towns]]

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