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*''Japanese'': ミンサー ''(minsaa)''
''Minsaa'' is a style of decorative weave known today as representative of the [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyama]] and [[Miyako Islands]]. It is typified by a five-and-four pattern of alternating squares, which are today seen in myriad contexts throughout the Yaeyama and Miyako Islands. Though ''minsaa'' has long been a key symbolic element of Yaeyama/Miyako efforts to distinguish themselves from [[Okinawa Island|"Okinawa"]] and to resist incorporation into a single, homogeneous, "Okinawan" identity, ''minsaa'' is today, ironically perhaps, coming to be used (and seen) as symbolic or representative of Okinawan culture as a whole; even as Okinawan culture is spread into the outer islands and ideas of Okinawanness are mistakenly applied to the entire island chain, at the same time, cultural elements such as ''minsaa'' are appropriated into Okinawan culture as if they had belonged to Okinawa all along.
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==References==
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
''Minsaa'' is a style of decorative weave known today as representative of the [[Yaeyama Islands|Yaeyama]] and [[Miyako Islands]]. It is typified by a five-and-four pattern of alternating squares, which are today seen in myriad contexts throughout the Yaeyama and Miyako Islands. Though ''minsaa'' has long been a key symbolic element of Yaeyama/Miyako efforts to distinguish themselves from [[Okinawa Island|"Okinawa"]] and to resist incorporation into a single, homogeneous, "Okinawan" identity, ''minsaa'' is today, ironically perhaps, coming to be used (and seen) as symbolic or representative of Okinawan culture as a whole; even as Okinawan culture is spread into the outer islands and ideas of Okinawanness are mistakenly applied to the entire island chain, at the same time, cultural elements such as ''minsaa'' are appropriated into Okinawan culture as if they had belonged to Okinawa all along.
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==References==
[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Art and Architecture]]
