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*Hachisuka clan were not samurai!? but were merchants, arms merchants.
*Hachisuka clan were not samurai!? but were merchants, arms merchants.
*[[Gusuku]] article needs expansion, from articles, from Kerr, etc. - currently cites only Kitahara
*[[Gusuku]] article needs expansion, from articles, from Kerr, etc. - currently cites only Kitahara
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Regions of the Ryukyus were referred to by poetic placenames using the word for "mountain." Prior to the unification of the island, Okinawa itself was divided into Hokuzan, Chûzan, and Nanzan. The distant Miyako and Ishigaki Islands were referred to as Taiheizan 太平山, Iheya and Izena, just west of Okinawa, were referred to as Yôhekizan 葉壁山, and the Kerama Islands were called Bashizan 馬歯山. - Kitahara Shûichi. ''A Journey to the Ryukyu Gusuku'' 琉球城紀行。 Naha: Miura Creative, 2003. p84.
