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Reading about the Ryukyuan royal treasures that went missing in 1945 – most of them presumed stolen, rather than destroyed; and a few of them recently rediscovered and returned – I happened for the first time upon *images* of them displayed in a pre-war, 1926, exhibition at the Tokyo Prefectural...
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Gradually moving through my old drafts. This one is from just about a year ago, August 2023. Getting off the ferry at Taketomi. Arriving on Taketomi Island and seeing how many people were also getting on or off boats, and how much infrastructure was there guiding people to resorts, buses,...
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Yamazato in a 1958 issue of Okinawa Graph magazine. Reading an autobiographical piece by Okinawan artist / playwright / novelist / cultural writer / cultural official Yamazato Eikichi, and it’s kind of amazing how many big name, famous, notable, figures keep coming into the story. Seems like he...