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*''Japanese'': 竹富島 ''(Taketomi jima)''
*''Japanese'': 竹富島 ''(Taketomi jima)''
Taketomi is a small island just to the southwest of [[Ishigaki Island]], in the southern [[Ryukyu Islands]]. The island is known for its traditional architecture, festivals, and traditional culture otherwise.
Taketomi is a small island just to the southwest of [[Ishigaki Island]], in the southern [[Ryukyu Islands]]. The island is known for its [[Ryukyuan architecture|traditional architecture]], festivals, and traditional culture otherwise.
The island is about 5.4 square kilometers in land area. Three villages, known as Ainotta village (Jp: ''Higashi shûraku''), Innotta village (Jp: ''Nishi shûraku''), and Naaji village (Jp: ''Nakasuji shûraku''), are clustered in the center of the island. A resort hotel run by the Hoshino corporation occupies a space in the southeast portion of the island, while ferries from Ishigaki and [[Iriomote Island]]s operate out of a pier on the northeastern coast.
The villages collectively were designated in 1986 as an Important Traditional Architectural Protection Area. Some of the key features of the traditional architecture include coral limestone walls running along white sand roads, and traditional Ryukyuan-style wood-frame houses with red terracotta tiled roofs.
==History==
==History==
Archaeological excavations have uncovered Chinese ceramics from the 12th-14th centuries in an area in the northern portion of the island identified as the ancient Shinzato village. Beginning in the 15th century, ''[[maransen]]'' trading ships connected Taketomi and other parts of the [[Yaeyama Islands]] with [[Okinawa Island]] and the [[Miyako Islands]].<ref>Explanatory plaques on Taketomi Island.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/53891112789/sizes/k/]</ref>
Archaeological excavations have uncovered Chinese ceramics from the 12th-14th centuries in an area in the northern portion of the island identified as the ancient Shinzato village. Beginning in the 15th century, ''[[maransen]]'' trading ships connected Taketomi and other parts of the [[Yaeyama Islands]] with [[Okinawa Island]] and the [[Miyako Islands]].<ref name=plaque>Explanatory plaques on Taketomi Island.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/53891112789/sizes/k/]</ref>
It is said that the six chiefs who first led the development of Taketomi Island came there from other islands, including Okinawa, [[Kumejima]], [[Yakushima]], and [[Tokunoshima]].<ref name=plaque/>
Islanders suffered under the heavy tax burden of the ''[[nintozei|nintôzei]]'' head tax imposed by the [[Ryukyu Kingdom]]. Many came to maintain rice fields on either Ishigaki or Iriomote Island, traveling in dugout canoes or small sailboats from the island's western pier (''nishi sanbashi'') to reach their fields on those other islands.<ref>Plaque on-site at Nishisanbashi, Taketomi.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/53889863367/in/photostream/]</ref>
===Modern History===
===Modern History===
==References==
==References==
*Plaques on-island.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/53891019088/sizes/l/]
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