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...cing [[Ming dynasty]] [[sugar]] cultivation and processing techniques into Amami in [[1610]]. ...ced those techniques and is credited with initiating the sugar industry on Amami.

...ya Sagenta was a [[Satsuma han]] official who was exiled to [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] during the ''Oyura sôdô'', a series of factional disputes betwe ...o [[1855]], he recorded numerous folk customs and other aspects of life on Amami in an illustrated volume entitled ''[[Nanto zatsuwa|Nantô zatsuwa]]'' (lit

...]]. It can be found on islands throughout the archipelago, including the [[Amami Islands]], [[Tokara Islands]], [[Okinawa Islands]], [[Miyako Islands]], [[Y The ''akashôbin'' features in a number of paintings by [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]-based ''[[Nihonga]]'' painter [[Tanaka Isson]].

...ning artifacts which they then donated to the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]]. ...objects from mainland Japan and Borneo, to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

...nguages family. Spoken across the [[Ryukyu Islands]] chain, they include [[Amami language]], [[Okinawan language]], [[Miyako language]], [[Yaeyama language] *Amami language:

...of Tatsugô village were a prominent power-holding family on [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] island. Descended from migrants from elsewhere in the [[Ryukyu Is *Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490995216/sizes/3k/]

...t|thumb|400px|Model of the Urakami Arimori site at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...i Arimori is the former site of a fortress on the island of [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]. Though no stone walls have been found, waterless moats surrounde

...ight|thumb|400px|Aikana's grave in the Ryû family cemetery in Tatsugô-chô, Amami Ôshima]] Ryû Aiko, also known as Aikana, was the [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] "island wife" of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]].

...t|thumb|400px|A taxidermied mongoose on display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...Okinawa prefecture]] today (a figure which does not include those in the [[Amami Islands]]).<ref name=yamatomizu>Gallery labels, Yama to mizu seikatsu hakub

...iko|Aikana]]. She is said to have been the first woman from [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] to become an elite in Kagoshima. She had one older brother, [[Sai She was born in [[1862]] in Tatsugô-chô on the island of Amami Oshima, where Saigô was living in exile. Originally known as Kikugusa, her

Tabata Sabuni was a native of [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] known for his efforts in land reclamation and cultivation on the *Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491206592/sizes/h/]

...ef>Gallery labels, "Hokorasha Amami" ほこらしゃ奄美 special exhibition, Reimeikan Museum, Kagoshima. Nov 2021.</ref> Within the Amamis, this trade helped fuel the a ...shells came to exceed the amount being produced in the Amamis, and so the Amami islanders began to increasingly trade locally-produced ''[[kamuiyaki]]'' po

...painter known primarily for his paintings of motifs and themes from the [[Amami Islands]]. In late 1958, he found his way to [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] and decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life there. For th

...rgest in all of Japan.<ref name=amaminosato>Gallery labels, Amami no Sato, Amami Park.</ref> ...f the king of the Okinawan kingdom of [[Hokuzan]].<ref>Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207132/sizes/h/]</ref> A shr

...from [[Okinoerabu Island]], on display today at the [[Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]]] ...sugar, and salt-preserved meats.<ref name=tatsu>Plaque, Tatsugô Town Hall, Amami Ôshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490996091/sizes/l/]</re

...tle.<ref>Explanatory plaques on-site at [[Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum]].</ref>

...t|thumb|400px|A photo of an Iriomote mountain cat, on display at the Amami Museum.]] *Gallery labels, Okinawa Prefectural Museum.

*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490995216/sizes/3k/]

*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490995216/sizes/3k/]

...ther, [[Ryu Aiko|Ryû Aiko]] (Aikana) was a local woman from [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]. He had one younger sister, [[Oyama Kikuko|Kikugusa]], and a numb Born in what is now Tatsugô-chô on Amami Ôshima, at age nine Kikujirô was taken to [[Kagoshima]] by his father. Th

*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490995216/sizes/3k/]

....<ref>Gallery labels, ''Ryukyu/Okinawa no chizu ten'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum, Feb 2017.</ref> ===[[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]===

...ight|thumb|320px|An example of ''baasaa'' cloth, on display at the British Museum]] ...name=bashagin>Gallery labels, "Bashagin," Amami Nature and Culture Centre, Amami Ôshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490487973/sizes/h/]</re

...e confused with the similarly-named [[Io Torishima|Iô Torishima]] in the [[Amami Islands]], nor with the remote [[Iwo Jima]] far to the east, and famous for ...ef>Gallery labels, "Hokorasha Amami" ほこらしゃ奄美 special exhibition, Reimeikan Museum, Kagoshima. Nov 2021.</ref>

...pg|right|thumb|400px|An example of ''kamuiyaki'' on display at the [[Amami Museum]].]] ...ares, are a style of ceramics chiefly produced on [[Tokunoshima]] in the [[Amami Islands]], but found throughout the [[Ryukyu Islands|Ryûkyû Islands]], ev

*Gallery labels, "Hokorasha Amami" ほこらしゃ奄美 special exhibition, Reimeikan Museum, Kagoshima. Nov 2021.

...rovince]] in [[624]].<ref name=tatsugo>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207132/sizes/h/]</ref> Elite

*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207387/sizes/4k/]

[[File:Amami-islands.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A map of the Amami Islands on the bottom of a Sato no Akebono ''[[shochu|shôchû]]'' glass]] *''Japanese'': 奄美諸島 ''(Amami shotou)''

...:Amami.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Model of the island on display at the [[Amami Museum]]]] *''Japanese'': 奄美大島 ''(Amami Ooshima)''

..., [[Saigo Kokichi|Saigô Kôkichi]].<ref>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207387/sizes/4k/]</ref>

...ef>Gallery labels, ''Jidai wo tsukutta waza'' 時代を作った技 exhibition, National Museum of Japanese History, July 2013.</ref> Ironworking is believed to have been first introduced into the [[Amami Islands]] around the year [[500]], and to have spread to the other [[Ryukyu

...ter [[Oyama Kikuko|Ôyama Kikuko]].<ref>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490995216/sizes/3k/]</ref>

...display recreating a traditional ''[[noro]]'' ritual. Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...u]]'' (good fortune), as represented in a museum display at the [[National Museum of Japanese History]]. Also seen here are a ''[[shisa]]'' (lion) and ''[[ha

...t Ryûkyû should arrange for Dutch or French trade either at [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]] or [[Yamakawa]]<ref>Both of these places were under the direct co ...apanese photographer. [[Important Cultural Property]]. On display at the [[Museum of the Meiji Restoration]]]]

...] goods. Between sugar obtained from the kingdom, and sugar grown in the [[Amami Islands]] (taken from the kingdom and under the direct control of [[Satsuma ...er95>Hellyer, 95.</ref> Satsuma encouraged the islanders of [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]], [[Tokunoshima]], and [[Kikaigashima]] to dedicate much of their

...seum display recreating a traditional ''noro'' ritual. Okinawa Prefectural Museum]] ...connections between the royal court at [[Shuri]] and the ''noro'' in the [[Amami Islands]] (brought under Kagoshima's control after [[1609]]), but ultimatel

...typical traditional Okinawan home, on display at the [[Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]]] ...glimpse of the kitchen off to the left. Display at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum.]]

...ugumichi]], and [[Saigo Kohei|Kohei]]. Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207387/sizes/4k/]</ref> He w ...their first child, Kikujirô.<ref>"Sego-don Yukari Map," plaque in Tatsugô, Amami.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490498438/sizes/k/]</ref>

...ry, if not earlier. Turban shell was a major export of the [[Amami Islands|Amami]] and Ryûkyû Islands in the 11th century and very likely for centuries pr ...easures of the Ryukyu Kingdom: Ryukyuan Lacquerware," pamphlet, Urasoe Art Museum.</ref>

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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>

...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

...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,

...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>

...</ref> and established in [[701]],<ref>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugo Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207212/sizes/4k/]</ref> the

...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

...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/>

...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

...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>

...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

...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

...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

...</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