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*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 御物城 ''(Omonogusuku / Umungusuku)''
*''Japanese/Okinawan'': 御物城 ''(Omonogusuku / Umungusuku)''
Omonogusuku was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] royal storehouse located on its own small island in [[Naha]] harbor, where trade goods obtained from overseas were stored.
Omonogusuku was a [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyuan]] royal storehouse located on its own small island in [[Naha]] harbor, where trade goods obtained from overseas were stored. The storehouse also served as an armory, holding spears, swords, bows and arrows, and suits of armor, and included spaces where numerous jars of [[sake]] or [[awamori]] were aged and stored according to vintage.<ref>Gregory Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 92-93.</ref>
The date of its construction is unclear, but Omonogusuku first appears in the historical record in the mid-15th century. It was headed by the ''Omonogusuku osasu-no-soba'', the highest governmental position a member of the Naha scholar-aristocracy could attain; the ''osasu-no-soba'' held his position for a term of three years.<ref>Higher positions in the government were filled from the scholar-aristocracies of [[Kumemura]] and [[Shuri]]. ''Naha shizoku no isshô'' 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 14.</ref> The storehouse operated until the early 18th century, when it fell into disuse as a result of the decline in Ryûkyû's foreign trade.
The date of its construction is unclear, but Omonogusuku first appears in the historical record in the mid-15th century. It was headed by the ''Omonogusuku osasu-no-soba'', the highest governmental position a member of the Naha scholar-aristocracy could attain; the ''osasu-no-soba'' held his position for a term of three years.<ref>Higher positions in the government were filled from the scholar-aristocracies of [[Kumemura]] and [[Shuri]]. ''Naha shizoku no isshô'' 那覇士族の一生 (Naha: Naha City Museum of History, 2010), 14.</ref> The storehouse operated until the early 18th century, when it fell into disuse as a result of the decline in Ryûkyû's foreign trade.