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Okinawa Island: Kunigami: Yayoi site on the northern tip of the island [11: 1: Urasoe Castle Site 浦添城跡 Urazoe-jō ato: Okinawa Island: Urasoe: fortifications date back to C13/C14; incurred heavy damage during the Battle of Okinawa [12
In addition to the Japanese military personnel who died in the Battle for Okinawa, well over one third of the civilian population, which numbered approximately 300,000 people, were killed. Many important documents, artifacts, and sites related to Ryukyuan history and culture were also destroyed, including the royal Shuri Castle. [32]
This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of historical materials (歴史資料, rekishi shiryō) for the Prefecture of Okinawa. [ 1 ] National Cultural Properties
The world-heritage listing of the "Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu" [6] [7] represents more than 500 years [8] [9] of Ryukyuan history, specifically from the 12th to the 17th century. On November 30, 2000, UNESCO inscribed it, along with 60 other global sites, on the World Heritage list.
The Yayoi culture which had a major influence on the Japanese islands, is traditionally dated from 3rd century BCE and recently from around 1000 BCE, [60] and is notable for the introduction of Yayoi-type pottery, metal tools and cultivation of rice, however although some Yayoi pottery and tools were excavated on the Okinawa Islands, the rice ...
Okinawa Prefecture (kept at the Okinawa Prefectural Centre for Buried Cultural Properties (沖縄県立埋蔵文化財センター) 209 items, comprising 1 piece of earthenware (and a further 85 fragments), 45 stone tools, 137 artefacts of shell, and 26 of bone; Shimotabaru Shell Mound on Hateruma, Taketomi, is a Prefectural Historic Site [7
Enkaku-ji was founded by Shō Shin in 1492; all its wooden buildings were destroyed during the war; the ornately carved bridge suffered minor damage and has since been restored; its carvings are a Prefectural Cultural Property
Okinawa was officially founded in 1879 by the Empire of Japan after seven years as the Ryukyu Domain, the last domain of the Han system. Early Okinawan history is defined by midden or shell heap culture and is divided into Early, Middle, and Late Shell Mound periods