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*''Japanese'': 蘇鉄 ''(sotetsu)''
''Sotetsu'', or cycad, is a palm-like plant widespread in the [[Ryukyu Islands]], and long a symbol of the semi-tropical islands prior to the introduction in the mid-to-late 20th century of Hawaiian plants such as hibiscus and palm trees.<ref>Gerald Figal, "Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa," ''The Public Historian'' 30:2 (2008), 93-94.</ref> The fruit of the ''sotetsu'' is highly poisonous, but can be rendered edible through extensive boiling, and was eaten as a food of last resort during famines, in the aftermath of destructive typhoons that destroyed food stores, and other such situations. The most infamous instance of this was during the so-called ''sotetsu jigoku'' or "cycad hell" in [[Okinawa prefecture]] during the Great Depression of the 1920s-30s, which brought with it a severe crash in the [[sugar]] market and thus a crash in the Okinawan economy.<ref>Alan Christy, "The Making of Imperial Subjects in Okinawa," ''positions'' 1:3 (1993), 611-612.</ref> Prior to that, in the 17th-19th centuries, villagers on the [[Amami Islands]] may have relied on ''sotetsu'' in this manner more regularly and more deeply than those in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] (modern-day Okinawa prefecture), as [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]] forced Amami islanders to focus intensively on sugar cultivation, to the detriment of maintaining sufficient production of other foods.<ref>Gallery labels, "Sotetsu," Amami Nature and Culture Center, Amami Ôshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490488448/sizes/h/]</ref>
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
[[Category:Flora and Fauna]]
''Sotetsu'', or cycad, is a palm-like plant widespread in the [[Ryukyu Islands]], and long a symbol of the semi-tropical islands prior to the introduction in the mid-to-late 20th century of Hawaiian plants such as hibiscus and palm trees.<ref>Gerald Figal, "Between War and Tropics: Heritage Tourism in Postwar Okinawa," ''The Public Historian'' 30:2 (2008), 93-94.</ref> The fruit of the ''sotetsu'' is highly poisonous, but can be rendered edible through extensive boiling, and was eaten as a food of last resort during famines, in the aftermath of destructive typhoons that destroyed food stores, and other such situations. The most infamous instance of this was during the so-called ''sotetsu jigoku'' or "cycad hell" in [[Okinawa prefecture]] during the Great Depression of the 1920s-30s, which brought with it a severe crash in the [[sugar]] market and thus a crash in the Okinawan economy.<ref>Alan Christy, "The Making of Imperial Subjects in Okinawa," ''positions'' 1:3 (1993), 611-612.</ref> Prior to that, in the 17th-19th centuries, villagers on the [[Amami Islands]] may have relied on ''sotetsu'' in this manner more regularly and more deeply than those in the [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû Kingdom]] (modern-day Okinawa prefecture), as [[Satsuma han|Kagoshima domain]] forced Amami islanders to focus intensively on sugar cultivation, to the detriment of maintaining sufficient production of other foods.<ref>Gallery labels, "Sotetsu," Amami Nature and Culture Center, Amami Ôshima.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49490488448/sizes/h/]</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Ryukyu]]
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