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*''Japanese'': 久米三十六姓 ''(Kume sanjuuroku sei)''
The Ryukyuan community of [[Kumemura]], and the scholar-bureaucrat aristocracy that was historically based there, trace their origins to a group of 36 families of the southern Chinese Min (閩) ethnic group who traveled to [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] from [[Fujian province]] and settled there in [[1392]], establishing the community of Kumemura.
The 36 families are said to have been commoners, and mostly shipbuilders and navigators, but an aristocracy grounded in the [[Confucianism|Confucian]] classics and based on the model of the Chinese system of scholar-bureaucrats grew out of their community. They are believed to have also introduced to Okinawa the ''sanxian'', a musical instrument out of which the Okinawan [[sanshin]] would later develop.<ref>Thompson, Robin. "The Sanshin and its Place in Okinawan Music." ''Okinawa bijutsu zenshû'' 沖縄美術全集. vol. 5. pp. ii-iii.</ref>
Though the 36 families intermarried and culturally assimilated to a considerable degree, their Min blood surely becoming considerably diluted down through the generations, the members of the Kumemura aristocracy continued throughout the early modern period ([[1609]]-[[1879]]) to be considered at least partially Chinese - that is, at least partially ethnically/racially/culturally different from other Ryukyuans.
==References==
*Uezato Takashi. "The Formation of the Port City of Naha in Ryukyu and the World of Maritime Asia: From the Perspective of a Japanese Network." ''[[Acta Asiatica]]'' 95 (2008). pp57-77.
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]
The Ryukyuan community of [[Kumemura]], and the scholar-bureaucrat aristocracy that was historically based there, trace their origins to a group of 36 families of the southern Chinese Min (閩) ethnic group who traveled to [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]] from [[Fujian province]] and settled there in [[1392]], establishing the community of Kumemura.
The 36 families are said to have been commoners, and mostly shipbuilders and navigators, but an aristocracy grounded in the [[Confucianism|Confucian]] classics and based on the model of the Chinese system of scholar-bureaucrats grew out of their community. They are believed to have also introduced to Okinawa the ''sanxian'', a musical instrument out of which the Okinawan [[sanshin]] would later develop.<ref>Thompson, Robin. "The Sanshin and its Place in Okinawan Music." ''Okinawa bijutsu zenshû'' 沖縄美術全集. vol. 5. pp. ii-iii.</ref>
Though the 36 families intermarried and culturally assimilated to a considerable degree, their Min blood surely becoming considerably diluted down through the generations, the members of the Kumemura aristocracy continued throughout the early modern period ([[1609]]-[[1879]]) to be considered at least partially Chinese - that is, at least partially ethnically/racially/culturally different from other Ryukyuans.
==References==
*Uezato Takashi. "The Formation of the Port City of Naha in Ryukyu and the World of Maritime Asia: From the Perspective of a Japanese Network." ''[[Acta Asiatica]]'' 95 (2008). pp57-77.
<references/>
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Muromachi Period]]
[[Category:Foreigners]]