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[[File:Okinawan-home2.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A typical Okinawan home, on display at the [[Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]]]

[[File:Okinawan-home2.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A stereotypical traditional Okinawan home, on display at the [[Okinawa Prefectural Museum]]]]

[[Okinawa]]'s architecture, typified in its ''[[gusuku]]'' (noble & royal castles) and ''minka'' (vernacular residences), incorporates Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian influence in rather distinctive local forms. Red-orange earthenware roof tiles and the white Okinawan limestone used in walls are among the most recognizable, or often-cited, features.

[[Okinawa]]'s architecture, typified in its ''[[gusuku]]'' (noble & royal castles) and ''minka'' (vernacular residences), incorporates Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian influence in rather distinctive local forms. Red-orange earthenware roof tiles and the white Okinawan limestone used in walls are among the most recognizable, or often-cited, features.