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*''Japanese'': 苗城川 ''(Naeshirogawa)''

*''Japanese'': 苗代川 ''(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 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. While these potters and others are typically said to have been "kidnapped," "taken prisoner," "taken as slaves," or by other such phrases, more recent research as well as the narratives put forth by the Chinjukan Museum (the chief museum of this history, run by one of those potter families) itself use much more neutral phrases such as ''torai'' ("crossed over to [Japan]") and ''tomonatte kita'' ("accompanied [the Shimazu] and came [to Japan]").<ref>Gallery labels, Chinjukan Museum, Miyama (Naeshirogawa), Kagoshima pref.; Rebekah Clements, "Captured Korean Potters and Alternate Attendance in Japan’s Satsuma Domain, 17th -18th Centuries," Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 webinar, 13 Oct 2021. At the ''Yonhyakunen gama'' ４００年窯, another kiln within the village, explanatory plaques use the phrase ''tsure kaerimashita'', indicating that the Shimazu "brought [the potters] along with them when they returned." Explanatory plaques on-site, 400-nen gama kiln, Miyama.</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>

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

The village still retained this special character as late as the 1780s, when [[Tachibana Nankei]] visited and discussed the village in his diaries.

The village still retained this special character as late as the 1780s, when [[Tachibana Nankei]] visited and discussed the village in his diaries.

==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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