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Tōnokubi Site (塔の首遺跡, Tōnokubi iseki) is an archaeological site with a cluster of Yayoi period graves, located in the Kamitsushima neighborhood of Tsushima, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1977.
Tsushima City-hall. Tsushima (対馬市, Tsushima-shi) is an island city grouped in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.It is the only city of Tsushima Subprefecture and it encompasses all of Tsushima Island, which lies in the Tsushima Strait north of Nagasaki on the western side of Kyushu, the southernmost mainland island of Japan.
Tsushima also incorporates over 100 smaller islands, many tiny. The name Tsushima generally refers to all the islands of the Tsushima archipelago collectively. [5] Administratively, Tsushima Island is in Nagasaki Prefecture. The island group measures about 70 km (43 mi) by 15 km (9 mi) and had a population of about 28,000 as of 2022.
Nagasaki Prefecture (長崎県, Nagasaki-ken) is a prefecture of Japan, mainly located on the island of Kyūshū, although it also includes a number of islands off Kyūshū's northwest coast - including Tsushima and Iki. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 km 2 (1,594 sq mi).
Tsushima Province (対馬国, Tsushima-no kuni) was an old province of Japan on Tsushima Island which occupied the area corresponding to modern-day Tsushima, Nagasaki. [1] It was sometimes called Taishū ( 対州 ) .
In 2018, his 1919's keshō-mawashi was retrieved in the Nagasaki Prefectural Tsushima High School as part of the city's survey of cultural assets. The keshō-mawashi was decorated with light blue waves and golden rocky mountains, portraying a classical Tsushima landscape. The lining is decorated with red brocade such as dragons and phoenixes. [5]
Due to Tsushima's geographic proximity and special role in Japanese diplomacy with Korea, linguists used to expect the Tsushima dialect to show some influence from Korean. [3] However, they were unable to test the hypothesis by conducting field work because the access to the island was restricted by the army for its strategic importance.
Tsushima Subprefecture, an administrative subdivision of Nagasaki prefecture (coterminous with Tsushima Island) Tsushima Fuchū Domain, a feudal domain of the early modern period, largely if not entirely contiguous with the Province; Tsushima Basin, also known as Ulleung Basin, located at the juncture of the Sea of Japan and the Korea Strait