...e.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Model of a Yayoi period village, at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]]]
...ô]], Shirai Mitsutarô, and Akizaka Shôzô of the [[University of Tokyo]]. A museum and historical marker stand on the site today, just beyond the rear walls/g
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...try within the [[sakoku|closed country]]."<ref>Gallery labels, [[Reimeikan Museum]], Kagoshima, Sept 2014.</ref> He showed a strong interest in European cult
...ehide also oversaw the construction of botanical gardens on [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]], on the grounds of [[Kagoshima castle]], and also in Edo, for the
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...t|thumb|400px|The Ryukyu Islands, as seen on a map at the Pacific Aviation Museum at Pearl Harbor]]
...ojima>Iô Torishima, also known as Tokara Iôjima, though lying north of the Amami Islands, is today administered as part of Okinawa Prefecture's Kumejima Cit
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...site; a number of neighborhoods, villages, or locations otherwise in the [[Amami Islands]] and [[Sakishima]] also bear placenames containing the sounds "gus
...d economic center of gravity in the [[Ryukyu Islands]] shifting from the [[Amami Islands]] (esp. [[Kikaijima]]) to Okinawa in the 13th-14th centuries.<ref>S
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...me=tnm>Gallery labels, "Yamato and Izumo," special exhibit, Tokyo National Museum, Feb 2020.</ref>
...ade and interaction; shell bracelets made from [[turbo shells]] from the [[Amami Islands]] and as far away as [[Okinawa Island]] have been found in archaeol
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...mewhat, but at the cost of the further exploitation of the people of the [[Amami Islands]].
...had a particularly significant impact upon the production of sugar in the Amami Islands, where "a structure of colonial extraction,"<ref>Hellyer, 95.</ref>
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...apanese photographer. [[Important Cultural Property]]. On display at the [[Museum of the Meiji Restoration]]]]
...ra also envisioned welcoming Western trade at [[Unten]] and [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]], with the explicit aim of competing against Nagasaki.<ref name=he
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...men<ref>''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'' 琉球使節、江戸へ行く！, Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 47.</ref> - instead of manpower; Hideyoshi agreed, but Shô Nei ign
...[[Kikaijima]], a man by the name of Kantarugane, is said to have sailed to Amami to surrender prior to any Shimazu forces ever landing on Kikai.<ref>Smits,
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...the 11th century BCE to the 3rd century CE extended as far south as the [[Amami Islands]], artifacts of that culture have not been found in the Miyakos or
...ry labels, "Nature on Iriomotejima Island," Gallery 4 (Folklife), National Museum of Japanese History, July 2013.</ref>
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...</ref> and established in [[701]],<ref>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugo Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207212/sizes/4k/]</ref> the
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...azu and the Tokugawa shogunate officially considered the production of the Amami Islands - administered by Kagoshima but still regarded as the territory of
...] and a number of its neighboring islands were annexed by Satsuma han. The Amami Islands today remain part of [[Kagoshima Prefecture]] while the rest of the
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...stered by a ''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'', each of whom served for a year at a time. Amami Ôshima, Tokunoshima, and Kikaigashima were administered by ''[[daikan]]'',
...]], Bônotsu, Kaseda, [[Yamakawa]], [[Tanegashima]], [[Yakushima]], and the Amami Islands.<ref name=satsuyu244/>
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...odel of a Ryukyuan tribute ship (''shinkôsen'') at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]
...da - Ryûkyû to Chûgoku no kakehashi," special exhibit, Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Sept 2014.</ref> [[Gregory Smits]] suggests that this rather generous trea
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...onument of Construction of Naha Port," gallery labels, Okinawa Prefectural Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49599881326/sizes/l/]</ref>
...ort town of Tomari.<ref>''Naha shizoku no isshô'' 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 14.</ref>
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...the 11th century BCE to the 3rd century CE extended as far south as the [[Amami Islands]], artifacts of that culture have not been found in the Miyakos or
...物 ("Songs and Plants of Okinawa"), Lecture by Prof. Uchida Junko, National Museum of Japanese History Botanical Gardens, 27 July 2013.</ref> Some of the olde
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...cting one key battle of the 1877 [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.]]
...ately refused to sign, and so all of the Ryukyus, from the [[Amami Islands|Amami]] and [[Tokara Islands]] in the north (already annexed into [[Satsuma provi
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...nawa were Japanese (non-Okinawan).<ref>Gallery labels, Okinawa Prefectural Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/30372132026/in/photostream/]</ref
...of Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum"), Nanjô, Okinawa: Okinawa Peace Memorial Museum (2004), 50-51.</ref> Fearing a land invasion of Okinawa, as many as 70,000
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...</ref> and podocarpus (J: ''inumaki'', O: ''chaagi'') from [[Amami Islands|Amami]] and [[Tokunoshima]] were also used, along with materials from elsewhere.
...ark and plays a prominent role in the operation of the Okinawa Prefectural Museum) oversees the reproduction and maintenance of individual objects such as st
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