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...n elementary school principal. After retiring from teaching, he joined the Okinawa Mainichi Shinbun as a reporter, and became involved with the socialist move ...erature, and economics. Higa was a contributor in the compilation of the ''Okinawa-go jiten'' ("Dictionary of the [[Okinawan language]]"), and produced a surv

Majikina Ankô was among the first major historians of Okinawa in the modern period. ...inawa Prefectural Office]]. In 1925, he became the head of the prefectural library.

...ーサ 9 (2008), 166, citing his ''[[kafu]]'', held by the Okinawa Prefectural Library.

...an]] of [[Kashima han]], and later an administrator in the government of [[Okinawa prefecture]], under [[Nabeshima Naoyoshi]]. ...tion in May [[1879]], and continued there for just over two years, leaving Okinawa in September [[1881]] along with Nabeshima. Hara then joined the [[House of

...1940, and then 1958. In November 1958, he returned to [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]] for the first time in 34 years, remaining there for two years. ...oems that had never been published were donated to the Okinawa Prefectural Library.

...istorical documents held by the Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts Library and pertaining to court ceremony performed at [[Shuri castle]] and elsewher

[[File:Okigeidai.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The main campus of the Okinawa Prefectural University of the Arts]] *''Japanese'': 沖縄県立芸術大学 ''(Okinawa kenritsu geijutsu daigaku)''

...stle's preservation. Over the next three years (into 1927), he traveled to Okinawa several times, conducting surveys of Okinawan art, including taking copious

...were missing or severely damaged. All were destroyed in the 1945 battle of Okinawa.

...yal palace of the [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]], in [[Shuri]], [[Okinawa Island]]) between [[1842]] and [[1846]]. ...a Yoshitarô]]; these notebooks are also held at the University of the Arts Library.

...ectural Middle School in 1919. He was then hired in 1929 to teach at Tokyo Prefectural High School. In 1933, Higashionna was dispatched from Tokyo to travel aroun ...na suggests that as this myth is the central grounds for the argument that Okinawa belongs, historically and fundamentally, to Japan, it must be the departure

...Japanese people, and cultures, came from the same origin, and that with [[Okinawa prefecture]] now being a part of Japan, assimilation was the best path. ...4%9F%E5%AE%B6%E8%B7%A1]</ref> In [[1895]], Ifa was attending Okinawa First Prefectural Middle School (on the former site of the [[Nakagusuku udun|Crown Prince's m

*1910/4 An Okinawan [[prefectural shrine]] is first proposed. *The Okinawa Prefectural Library is established, with [[Iha Fuyu|Iha Fuyû]] as its first director.

...ture]]. He would later go on to do a similar study for sugar production in Okinawa. ..., where he worked as an engineer in the employ of the [[Okinawa prefecture|prefectural]] government, achieving a higher government position, sooner, than any of t

...fumichi|Aijô-ufumichi]] leading off the top of the image, and [[Engaku-ji (Okinawa)|Engaku-ji]] and the [[Ryutan|Ryûtan]] to the right.]] ...us today a neighborhood of the prefectural capital of [[Okinawa prefecture|Okinawa]].

...nts, most of whom were stopping in Fuzhou on their way between Beijing and Okinawa. The costs of hosting these visitors were mostly borne by the Chinese side. ...e kingdom's territory was annexed by the [[Meiji period|Meiji state]] as [[Okinawa Prefecture]]. For a brief period in the early decades of the 20th century,

...number of other municipalities into its borders, Naha is the capital of [[Okinawa prefecture]]. ...was already burgeoning by the 1420s, when [[Sho Hashi|Shô Hashi]] united [[Okinawa Island]], founding the Kingdom of Ryûkyû and establishing the [[Sho dynas

*''Japanese'': 沖縄県 ''(Okinawa ken)'' ...een [[1609]], when [[Satsuma han]] annexed nearly all the islands north of Okinawa Island, and [[1879]], when the kingdom was [[Ryukyu Shobun|abolished]].

...xin lu]]'' by [[Xu Baoguang]]. Sakamaki-Hawley Collection, Univ. of Hawaii Library.]] ...5-storytopic-121.html Sappôshi]." ''Okinawa konpakuto jiten'' (沖縄コンパクト事典, "Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia"). 1 March 2003. Accessed 7 November 2009.</ref>, the