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Naeshirogawa is a village in Higashi-ichirai, Hioki district, [[Kagoshima prefecture]], which in the [[Edo period]] was home to a community of potters descended from Korean ceramics experts forcibly taken from Korea to Japan during [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.
Naeshirogawa is a village in Higashi-ichirai, Hioki district, [[Kagoshima prefecture]], which in the [[Edo period]] was home to a community of potters descended from Korean ceramics experts forcibly taken from Korea to Japan during [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi|Toyotomi Hideyoshi's]] [[Korean Invasions|invasions of Korea]] in the 1590s.
The community soon established their own shrine, called [[Gyokusan Shrine]]<!--玉山神社-->, where Korean-style worship and rituals could take place.<ref>Gallery labels, [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]], Kagoshima.</ref>
The village still retained this special character as late as the 1780s, when [[Tachibana Nankei]] visited and discussed the village in his diaries.
The village still retained this special character as late as the 1780s, when [[Tachibana Nankei]] visited and discussed the village in his diaries.
*Kurushima Hiroshi, et al., ''Satsuma Chôsen tôkô mura no yonhyaku nen'', Iwanami Shoten (2014), v.
*Kurushima Hiroshi, et al., ''Satsuma Chôsen tôkô mura no yonhyaku nen'', Iwanami Shoten (2014), v.
*Plutschow, Herbert. ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Global Oriental, 2006. pp75-88.
*Plutschow, Herbert. ''A Reader in Edo Period Travel''. Global Oriental, 2006. pp75-88.
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[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Cities and Towns]]