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[[File:Amami-islands.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A map of the Amami Islands on the bottom of a Sato no Akebono ''[[shochu|shôchû]]'' glass]]
 
*''Other Names'': 道之島 ''(michi no shima)''
 
*''Other Names'': 道之島 ''(michi no shima)''
 
*''Japanese'': 奄美諸島 ''(Amami shotou)''
 
*''Japanese'': 奄美諸島 ''(Amami shotou)''
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==History==
 
==History==
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Archaeological excavations have confirmed that most if not all of the Amami Islands were populated as early as several thousand years ago, during the [[Jomon period|Jômon period]]. Evidence has been found of pit dwellings and stone tools, and of other evidence of active communities on the islands.
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Amami, [[Tanegashima]], and [[Yakushima]] may have sent [[tribute]] to the [[Yamato state]] as early as [[616]]; some sources suggest that individuals representing those islands received [[stipends]] from the imperial court as early as [[683]].<ref>Yokoyama Manabu 横山学, ''Ryûkyû koku shisetsu torai no kenkyû'' 琉球国使節渡来の研究, Tokyo: Yoshikawa kôbunkan (1987), 51.</ref><ref name=tatsugo>Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum. Feb 2020.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207132/sizes/h/]</ref>
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Amami Ôshima is said to have sent [[tribute]] to the [[Yamato state]] (i.e. Japan) as early as the year [[699]]. This can be presumed to have tapered off by the 11th or 12th century, if not earlier. Amami sent tribute however, to the Kingdom of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], and later the Ryûkyû Kingdom (on Okinawa Island) from [[1266]] through the end of the 16th century; as with tribute received from the more southerly islands (the [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyamas]] and [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]]), tribute from Amami was received and stored at the port of [[Tomari]], just outside [[Naha]]. The islands were often referred to collectively as ''michi no shima'' ("islands of the road") as they formed a path Ryukyuan ships followed to travel to and from Kyushu.
 
Amami Ôshima is said to have sent [[tribute]] to the [[Yamato state]] (i.e. Japan) as early as the year [[699]]. This can be presumed to have tapered off by the 11th or 12th century, if not earlier. Amami sent tribute however, to the Kingdom of [[Chuzan|Chûzan]], and later the Ryûkyû Kingdom (on Okinawa Island) from [[1266]] through the end of the 16th century; as with tribute received from the more southerly islands (the [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyamas]] and [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]]), tribute from Amami was received and stored at the port of [[Tomari]], just outside [[Naha]]. The islands were often referred to collectively as ''michi no shima'' ("islands of the road") as they formed a path Ryukyuan ships followed to travel to and from Kyushu.
  
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